{"id":198498,"date":"2026-03-10T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198498\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:06:10","slug":"fatal-crash-on-sh-349-in-martin-county-kills-lubbock-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198498\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal crash on SH 349 in Martin County kills Lubbock man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MARTIN COUNTY, Texas (KOSA) &#8211; One man is dead and another injured after a crash on State Highway 349 in Martin County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a release from the Texas Department of Public Safety, on March 9 at 6:30 a.m., a crash occurred on SH 349 at County Road 4800.<\/p>\n<p>What happened<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation revealed a Cadillac SRX was traveling southbound on SH 349 when it veered onto the rumble strips, causing the driver to over-correct and cross into the northbound lanes, striking a Mercedes head-on, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Mercedes was driven by Samuel Jones Lookadoo, 46, of Lubbock. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lookadoo was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The report also stated that the driver of the Cadillac, Francisco Alex Ramos Valasquez, 21, of Lubbock, was transported to Midland Memorial Hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This crash remains under investigation. No additional information is available at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KOSA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY, Texas (KOSA) &#8211; One man is dead and another injured after a crash on State Highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,78414,169,78412,78415,78413,78416],"class_list":["post-198498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-man-killed-crash","tag-lubbock-news","tag-martin-county-fatal-crash","tag-martin-county-texas-traffic-fatality","tag-sh-349-accident","tag-state-highway-349-head-on-collision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198498","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=198498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}