{"id":144022,"date":"2026-01-30T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/144022\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:16:07","slug":"man-dies-in-crash-with-semi-on-i-39-near-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/144022\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in crash with semi on I-39 near El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Ill. \u2013 A man is dead following a crash Thursday afternoon on I-39 near El Paso, involving a semi and a car.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Deputy Dennis Tipsword said the Woodford County Sheriff\u2019s Office was called to the scene around 12:05 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The semi was carrying an \u201coversized load\u201d, and was traveling at a reduced speed when the car crashed into the back of it.<\/p>\n<p>A driver of the car, the only person in the vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies are investigating the crash with help from the Illinois State Police.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s identity is being withheld pending notification of family. \u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Ill. \u2013 A man is dead following a crash Thursday afternoon on I-39 near El Paso,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-144022","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144022","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=144022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}