{"id":104552,"date":"2025-12-30T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/104552\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T05:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:00:14","slug":"dps-blames-fog-speed-for-fatal-christmas-eve-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/104552\/","title":{"rendered":"DPS blames fog, speed for fatal Christmas Eve crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A 23-year-old Kingsville man was killed in a Christmas Eve motorcycle crash in Nueces County, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Rob Mallory said the crash happened around 8:36 a.m. on FM 665 near County Road 67 in the Petronila area.<\/p>\n<p>Mallory said a 2025 CFMOTO 450 SS motorcycle was traveling east at a high rate of speed when heavy fog reduced visibility. The rider failed to negotiate a curve, left the roadway and struck a metal pole.<\/p>\n<p>The impact caused the rider to be thrown from the motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>The rider was identified as Jesse Acuna Jr., 23, of Kingsville. He was transported to CHRISTUS Spohn Shoreline Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Mallory said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Acuna&#8217;s family has been notified.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation by troopers from the DPS Highway Patrol Office in Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n<p>More from 3NEWS on KIIITV.com: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/dps-investigates-christmas-eve-motorcycle-crash-killed-kingsville-man\/mailto:tell3@kiiitv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tell3@kiiitv.com<\/a> so we can get in touch with you about your story should we have questions or need more information. We realize some stories are sensitive in nature. Let us know if you&#8217;d like to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A 23-year-old Kingsville man was killed in a Christmas Eve motorcycle crash in Nueces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-104552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104552","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=104552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}