{"id":125861,"date":"2026-01-16T16:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/125861\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:09:06","slug":"one-killed-three-children-critically-injured-in-county-road-77-crash-dps-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/125861\/","title":{"rendered":"One killed, three children critically injured in County Road 77 crash, DPS says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DPS says one driver died at the scene while another was airlifted to a Corpus Christi hospital following a late-night crash.<\/p>\n<p>ROBSTOWN, Texas \u2014 One person is dead and three children are critically injured following a two-vehicle crash late Monday night at the intersection of County Road 77 and County Road 36 near Robstown, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS).<\/p>\n<p>DPS Sgt. Mallory said troopers were notified of the crash at 9:44 p.m. The collision involved a Ford Ranger and a Buick Rendezvous.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Buick Rendezvous was pronounced dead at the scene. Three children who were passengers in the Rendezvous were transported to a hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>HALO Flight airlifted the driver of the Ford Ranger to Spohn Shoreline Hospital for treatment. That driver\u2019s condition has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>DPS said the investigation remains ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Mallory said they remain at the scene as they continue to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>No further information, including the cause of the crash, has been released at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DPS says one driver died at the scene while another was airlifted to a Corpus Christi hospital following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-125861","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\/125861","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=125861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}