{"id":121631,"date":"2026-01-13T18:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/121631\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:45:15","slug":"1-dead-1-seriously-injured-in-motley-county-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/121631\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 1 seriously injured in Motley County crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MOTLEY COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A man is dead and a woman is injured after a crash along Highway 70 just south of Roaring Springs Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash occurred about an hour northeast of Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DPS reports 25-year-old Joclynne Clarkston-Smith of Seminole rear-ended a pickup truck. Troopers say the pickup was stopped in the middle of the highway with its lights turned off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Clarkston-Smith was seriously hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver of the pickup, 71-year-old Richard Piper of Roaring Springs, died at the hospital in Crosbyton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOTLEY COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A man is dead and a woman is injured after a crash along&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[268,6071,11861,319,66,168,170,169,52872,223,27],"class_list":["post-121631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-crash","tag-dps","tag-fatal","tag-kcbd","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-motley-county","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121631","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=121631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}