{"id":248017,"date":"2026-04-13T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248017\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:50:10","slug":"sleeping-driver-hits-a-police-car-and-leads-officers-on-a-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248017\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping driver hits a police car and leads officers on a chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver is facing several charges after striking a police patrol car and leading officers on a multi-mile chase early on April 12.<\/p>\n<p>Nueces County Constable Precinct 3 deputies and Bishop police officers responded to a suspicious vehicle near the intersection of Business Highway 77 and FM 70 at approximately 3:49 a.m. Officers found a male driver asleep inside the vehicle, which was still in drive.<\/p>\n<p>When officers made contact, the driver fled westbound on FM 70, striking a Bishop police patrol car. The driver evaded officers for several miles, at one point driving into a ditch on the north side of the highway.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle eventually stopped on FM 70 near County Road 95. Officers took the driver into custody without further incident.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop police arrested the man on several pending charges, while Precinct 3 deputies investigated the vehicle crash.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver is facing several charges after striking a police patrol car and leading officers on a multi-mile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,5790],"class_list":{"0":"post-248017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news","11":"tag-nueces-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248017","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=248017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}