{"id":100288,"date":"2025-12-25T02:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T02:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/100288\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T02:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T02:33:09","slug":"semi-truck-driver-facing-charges-after-crashing-into-lubbock-county-deputies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/100288\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi truck driver facing charges after crashing into Lubbock County deputies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A semi-truck driver accused of crashing into two Lubbock County deputies back in September is now in jail facing criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gregory Vaught, 57, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Illinois police arrested the freight hauler on Thanksgiving and extradited him to Lubbock, where he is being held on $50,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash happened Sept. 9 when deputies Andrew Cavazos and Jorge Martinez were helping a family stranded on I-27 at the 98th Street bridge. Police say Vaught\u2019s truck smashed into their patrol units, pinning the deputies against the wall and forcing Deputy Cavazos over the edge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A group of good Samaritans rushed from work sites nearby to rescue him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A lawsuit against Vaught and the trucking company claims he was working on his phone at the time of the crash. The lawsuit seeks at least $1 million in damages for the deputies and the family they were helping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The case is set to go to trial in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A semi-truck driver accused of crashing into two Lubbock County deputies back in September&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-100288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}