{"id":261306,"date":"2026-04-22T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261306\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:00:08","slug":"florida-truck-driver-charged-with-intoxication-manslaughter-in-fatal-west-texas-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261306\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida truck driver charged with intoxication manslaughter in fatal West Texas crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABILENE, Texas \u2014  A Florida truck driver has been charged with intoxication manslaughter after a crash at a rural intersection left a South Texas man dead, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Angel Casanova, 68, of Saint Cloud, Florida, suffered minor injuries in the crash and was wearing a seatbelt, according to investigators. After receiving treatment at Hendrick North Emergency Care, he was arrested on the charge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktxs.com\/news\/local\/abilene-man-charged-with-intoxicated-manslaughter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED| Abilene man charged with Intoxicated Manslaughter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Authorities identified the victim as Adam Lee Reyna, 26, of Mission, Texas. Reyna, who was driving a 2019 Dodge Ram pickup, died at the scene and was pronounced dead by Justice of the Peace Mike McAuliffe. His seatbelt use was not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>According to a preliminary investigation, Casanova was traveling westbound on County Road 54 and approached a stop sign at the intersection with State Highway 351. Reyna was traveling northbound on the highway toward the same intersection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktxs.com\/news\/local\/christoval-man-indicted-for-intoxicated-manslaughter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED| Christoval man indicted for Intoxication Manslaughter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Casanova failed to yield at the stop sign, and the vehicles collided.<\/p>\n<p>The impact caused Reyna\u2019s pickup to catch fire, and it was destroyed, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktxs.com\/news\/local\/abilene-man-indicted-for-intoxication-manslaughter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED| Abilene man indicted for intoxication manslaughter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further investigation determined Casanova was intoxicated due to an overdose of medication at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABILENE, Texas \u2014 A Florida truck driver has been charged with intoxication manslaughter after a crash at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-261306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261306","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=261306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}