{"id":225696,"date":"2026-03-29T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/225696\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:52:09","slug":"dps-trooper-driver-injured-in-crash-during-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/225696\/","title":{"rendered":"DPS trooper, driver injured in crash during pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper was injured in a two-vehicle crash while pursuing a speeding vehicle Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash happened at approximately 11:17 p.m. at 19th Street and University Avenue in Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The trooper was traveling southbound on University Avenue with emergency equipment activated while pursuing a speeding vehicle. As the trooper crossed the intersection, a GMC Acadia SUV traveling east on 19th Street entered the intersection and collided with the passenger side of the patrol unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The trooper was transported to University Medical Center with minor injuries and was treated and released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver of the SUV and a 2-year-old child were also transported to UMC. The driver sustained minor injuries, and the child was uninjured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper was injured in a two-vehicle crash while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-225696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225696","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=225696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225696\/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=225696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}