18-wheeler catches fire in U.S. Highway 75 crash in Sherman, closing northbound lanes

By GvilleTX Newsroom

Sherman police said an 18-wheeler crashed on U.S. Highway 75 on Tuesday morning and caught fire, shutting both northbound lanes at Shepherd Drive and narrowing southbound travel to a single lane while emergency crews worked the scene.

The Sherman Police Department reported the wreck the morning of July 7, 2026, describing the vehicle as a semi-truck and an 18-wheeler. The crash caused a fire at the scene, and the department said the 18-wheeler caught fire. More than one lane of the highway stayed closed as responders handled it, according to the department.

Police placed the closures at the Shepherd Drive intersection. Both northbound lanes were shut, the department said, and southbound drivers were funneled through a single lane past the response area during the crash response. The account did not give a cause for the crash, and the department did not say how many people were involved or whether anyone was hurt.

TxDOT and the City of Sherman each list separate, long-term projects that involve U.S. 75 and Shepherd Drive. The Texas Department of Transportation lists a U.S. 75 and U.S. 82 improvement program covering Sherman and neighboring Denison. According to the agency, the work is meant to address safety, congestion, traffic operations, drainage and roadway deficiencies along the corridor.

An earlier TxDOT proposal for the two cities called for widening about 12.7 miles of U.S. 75 between FM 1417 and FM 120. On part of that stretch, the plan would have expanded the roadway from four main lanes to six, according to the agency.

The city has a separate Shepherd Drive project on the street named in Tuesday's closures. City records describe a roadway that would connect Interurban Parkway to U.S. 75, built first as a four-lane divided route and designed to allow an eventual six-lane divided configuration.

Serious truck crashes on this stretch of U.S. 75 have drawn federal review before. The National Transportation Safety Board investigated a 2004 collision near FM 1417 in which a Freightliner crossed the median. The board's review documented that crossover and the fire that broke out after the wreck, according to its record. That case remains one example of a severe truck-related fire crash on the same Sherman highway now carrying Tuesday's closures.

Sherman police posted information about Tuesday's crash on the department's Facebook page.