Sherman police reopen U.S. 75 service road after major crash near Highway 902

Sherman Police reported a major crash on the southbound service road of U.S. Highway 75, just north of Highway 902, and said the roadway was clear and open again by 7:49 a.m. While officers worked the scene, the department told drivers to use caution and to consider an alternate route until its response wrapped up.

The reopening followed a period in which the service road was blocked to traffic. U.S. 75 carries north-south traffic through Sherman. Police said the accident remained under investigation and reported no lingering lane restrictions once the service road opened. The 7:49 a.m. notice came as an update to an earlier alert about the wreck and stood as the department's most recent public word on it. Sherman Police shared the updates on its official Facebook page.

The department's account confirmed the crash and its general location but went no further. Police did not identify the vehicles involved and did not say whether anyone was injured. They also did not describe what caused the collision or pin the wreck to a specific cross street.

The crash happened along a stretch of highway that state and city officials have already lined up for major construction. The Texas Department of Transportation says it is working through long-term planning and project development for U.S. 75 across Sherman and the neighboring city of Denison. The agency lists its goals as improving safety, easing congestion, smoothing traffic operations, fixing drainage problems and correcting roadway deficiencies.

TxDOT describes the possible scope as large, and it has cast the effort as a long-term undertaking still in the study stage. Under the plan it is weighing, the corridor could gain main lanes, continuous frontage roads, new U-turns and reworked interchanges.

The City of Sherman is pushing a road project of its own near the highway, and it lists the work among its ongoing projects. City records describe a plan to connect Shepherd Drive from Interurban Parkway to U.S. 75, creating a new link between the parkway and the highway. The work is laid out as roughly 4,500 linear feet of four-lane divided roadway, built to carry a six-lane divided configuration in its final form.

A filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for the Shepherd Drive project lists public funding behind the work. Its construction scope covers grading, paving, signal improvements, drainage, lighting, pavement markings and signing.

The state corridor planning and the city street project are not tied in the public record to the crash near Highway 902. Both appear here only as nearby road work already listed in Sherman-area transportation records.