{"id":130736,"date":"2026-01-20T19:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/130736\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:13:09","slug":"rockport-man-killed-in-single-vehicle-crash-troopers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/130736\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockport man killed in single-vehicle crash, troopers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKPORT, Texas \u2014 A 52-year-old Rockport man was killed in a single-vehicle crash Monday afternoon, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers said Juanito Garcia Jr. was driving a 1959 Willys Overland Jeepster westbound in the 300 block of Corpus Christi Street around 1:23 p.m. when the vehicle left the roadway and struck an elevated portion of a ditch with its front end.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics transported Garcia to the Rockport 24\/7 Emergency Room, where he died of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation by troopers with the Highway Patrol Office in Sinton.<\/p>\n<p>More from 3NEWS on KIIITV.com: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/rockport-man-killed-in-crash\/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":"ROCKPORT, Texas \u2014 A 52-year-old Rockport man was killed in a single-vehicle crash Monday afternoon, according to the&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-130736","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\/130736","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=130736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130736\/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=130736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}