{"id":143297,"date":"2026-01-29T23:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/143297\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:34:10","slug":"driver-dies-in-i-39-crash-with-a-semi-near-el-paso-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/143297\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies in I-39 crash with a semi near El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Woodford County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said one person was killed Thursday in a crash involving a car and a semi tractor-trailer. <\/p>\n<p>Woodford County Sheriff Chief Deputy Dennis Tipsword said deputies were called to the southbound lanes of Interstate 39 just north of El Paso around 12:05 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the semi had an oversized load and was traveling at a reduced speed. A passenger vehicle hit the back of the semi. <\/p>\n<p>The driver of the passenger vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver&#8217;s name has not been released pending notification of family.<\/p>\n<p>Police temporarily closed the southbound lanes of I-39 from mile makers 14 [El Paso] and 22 [near Kappa] as emergency responders cleared the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation by the Woodford County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Illinois State Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Woodford County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said one person was killed Thursday in a crash involving a car and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,520,60033,60034],"class_list":{"0":"post-143297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news","11":"tag-fatal-crash","12":"tag-interstate-39","13":"tag-woodford-county-sheriffs-office"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143297","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=143297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}