Michael Brown, 22, was pronounced dead March 20, nearly a week after the March 14 crash on Highway 361 near Cinnamon Shore and Access Road 1A, according to the Nueces County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Port Aransas police said Brown was riding on top of a black Jeep when he was thrown from the vehicle after it collided with a Tesla.<\/p>\n
Video circulating online shows Brown \u201ctwerking\u201d moments before the crash. The same video also shows the immediate aftermath.<\/p>\n
Brown suffered a severe head injury, authorities said.<\/p>\n
According to court documents obtained by KIII 3 News, the driver, identified as 24-year-old Riley Rhoades, was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated\u00a0after recording blood alcohol concentrations of 0.14 and 0.12 in breath tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Brown, 22, was pronounced dead March 20, nearly a week after the March 14 crash on Highway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-223350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223350","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=223350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}