Kingsville police say a 63-year-old Laredo truck driver died Friday after becoming pinned under a trailer while preparing to leave an AEP Texas facility yard.<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A 63-year-old truck driver from Laredo died Friday morning after becoming pinned beneath a trailer at an AEP Texas facility in Kingsville, according to police.<\/p>\n
Officers, firefighters and EMS crews responded to a 9-1-1 call at about 10:33 a.m. at the AEP Texas facility on East Corral Avenue in Kingsville, the Kingsville Police Department said in a press release.<\/p>\n
When responders arrived, they found a man dead at the scene. Police said the death was the result of a workplace accident.<\/p>\n
Investigators identified the man as Cervelio Garcia Guzman, 63, of Laredo.<\/p>\n
According Kingsville PD, Garcia Guzman had just delivered equipment to the facility in a tractor-trailer and was preparing the trailer to leave the yard when he became pinned underneath it.<\/p>\n
An AEP employee discovered Garcia Guzman about five minutes later, according to Kingsville PD.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Justice of the Peace Precinct 1 Judge Gonzalez ordered an autopsy.<\/p>\n
3NEWS has reached out to AEP Texas for comment. \u00a0We will provide updates as more information becomes available. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kingsville police say a 63-year-old Laredo truck driver died Friday after becoming pinned under a trailer while preparing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-203897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203897","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=203897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}