{"id":268638,"date":"2026-04-27T19:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/268638\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T19:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:55:13","slug":"police-confirm-teen-dies-days-after-north-lubbock-golf-cart-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/268638\/","title":{"rendered":"Police confirm teen dies days after north Lubbock golf cart accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 27, 2026, 1:14 p.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Police confirmed an 18-year-old man died in a Lubbock hospital on Thursday following a golf cart accident two days prior in north Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Officers initially responded to assist EMS at 2nd Street and Avenue K about 9 p.m. April 21, according to a statement from Lubbock police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Upon arrival, officers located 18-year-old Jonathan Garcia suffering from serious injuries. Garcia was taken by EMS to University Medical Center, where he died on April 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Through the initial course of the investigation, police believe Garcia was a front passenger in a golf cart that was traveling north in the 200 block of Avenue K. As the golf cart turned west onto 2nd Street, Garcia fell out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The driver and second passenger were not injured. Police did not immediately identify those occupants.<\/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":"April 27, 2026, 1:14 p.m. CT Police confirmed an 18-year-old man died in a Lubbock hospital on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[203,168,170,169,9959,9960,2081,532,24134,573,660,3530,217,36],"class_list":["post-268638","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-tagemergency-medical-services","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\/268638","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=268638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}