{"id":206988,"date":"2026-03-16T16:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/206988\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:33:07","slug":"driver-seriously-injured-after-overnight-police-chase-ends-in-crash-in-east-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/206988\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver seriously injured after overnight police chase ends in crash in East Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; One person is hospitalized after an overnight police chase ended in a crash early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Around 3 a.m., a Lubbock Police officer attempted a traffic stop near 38th and Avenue L on an SUV driven by Berardo Pauda Jr. III. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators say he did not stop and continued east on 50th Street. Crash investigators determined Paudo Jr. drove through the intersection of 50th and Southeast Drive where he struck a utility pole and street sign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Initially, Pauda Jr. was taken to UMC with minor injuries. However, police were notified his injuries were upgraded to serious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The incident remains under investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; One person is hospitalized after an overnight police chase ended in a crash early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[268,294,21988,319,21353,251,1739,168,170,169,3605,5298,5299],"class_list":["post-206988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-crash","tag-crime","tag-east-lubbock","tag-kcbd","tag-local-crime","tag-local-news","tag-lpd","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-police-department","tag-police-chase","tag-police-pursuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206988","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=206988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}