{"id":225754,"date":"2026-03-29T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/225754\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T12:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:04:17","slug":"lubbock-police-id-man-killed-in-freeway-motorcycle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/225754\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock police ID man killed in freeway motorcycle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 29, 2026, 4:31 a.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Police are continuing to investigate a motorcycle crash that left a 19-year-old man dead Thursday in central Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Austin Reel, 19, died at University Medical Center following the crash that was reported about 12:34 p.m. Thursday near the 4000 block of 19th Street, according to Lubbock police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Investigators believe Reel was riding a motorcycle west in the 4000 block of 19th Street and entering the onramp of the Marsha Sharp Freeway when the vehicle struck a raised median and guardrail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Reel was thrown from the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He was initially listed in serious condition when taken by ambulance to UMC, but was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Other factors contributing to the crash were not immediately clear as the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 29, 2026, 4:31 a.m. CT Police are continuing to investigate a motorcycle crash that left a 19-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[203,168,170,169,9959,9960,2081,532,573,660,3530,217,36],"class_list":["post-225754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-accessmetered","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-sstsnewsaccident","tag-sstsnaccident","tag-tagaccidents-disasters","tag-tagdeath-tragedy","tag-taglaw-enforcement","tag-taglocal-news","tag-taglubbock","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225754","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=225754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}