{"id":173891,"date":"2026-02-21T04:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173891\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:29:17","slug":"7-year-old-boy-man-dead-after-crash-in-martin-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173891\/","title":{"rendered":"7-year-old boy, man dead after crash in Martin County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A 23-year-old man and a child are dead following a crash in Martin County on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, Mariano Molinar was driving north on SH 349 on the inside lane. A second car was driving south by 50-year-old Carlos Tijerina of Lamesa on the outside lane when Molinar made a u-turn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Molinar crashed into the car and was pronounced dead at the scene. A 7-year-old boy that was a passenger in Tijerina\u2019s car was also pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tijerina\u2019s other two passengers were taken to Midland Memorial Hospital for minor and serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DPS says Molinar was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A 23-year-old man and a child are dead following a crash in Martin County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[11852,70326,268,7553,319,66,168,170,169,70327,70325,223],"class_list":{"0":"post-173891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-brandon-soliz","9":"tag-carlos-tijerina","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-deadly","12":"tag-kcbd","13":"tag-local","14":"tag-lubbock","15":"tag-lubbock-headlines","16":"tag-lubbock-news","17":"tag-mariano-molinar","18":"tag-martin-county","19":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173891","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=173891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}