Mesquite man loses arm in crash with semi in Dallas

Dallas Police are investigating after a man said his arm was severed in a crash with a tractor-trailer.

Carlos Campos, 26, said he lost his arm in a collision with a semi truck as he was driving to work along the 5300 block of South Cockrell Hill Road in Dallas. Campos said he had his window down because the air conditioner in his SUV wasn’t working and that he had his arm resting on the door when an 18-wheeler hit his vehicle and left without stopping to help.

With his arm severed, Campos called his wife and drove himself to a fire station for help.

“I was scared,” said Campos’s wife, Lorena Macedo. “I was like, I need to get there as soon as possible.”…

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