{"id":198326,"date":"2026-03-10T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198326\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:49:21","slug":"lubbock-man-killed-in-head-on-collision-in-martin-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198326\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock man killed in head-on collision in Martin County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock man died in a crash in Martin County early Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At 6:30 a.m., troopers responded to a head-on crash on State Highway 349 and CR 4800. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crash investigators say a Cadillac SRX was southbound on SH 349 when it veered onto the rumble strips and the driver over-corrected into the northbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That\u2019s when the driver, 21-year-old Francisco Alex Ramos Valasquez, of Lubbock, struck a Mercedes traveling northbound head-on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver of the Mercedes, 46-year-old Samuel Lookadoo, died at the scene of the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Valasquez was taken to Midland Memorial Hospital and treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock man died in a crash in Martin County early Monday morning. At&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[521,520,47058,78357,319,251,168,170,169,70325],"class_list":["post-198326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-deadly-crash","tag-fatal-crash","tag-head-on-collision","tag-head-on-crash","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-martin-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198326","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=198326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198326\/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=198326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}