CARRIZO SPRINGS, Texas – A 52-year-old Weslaco man was killed late Thursday when the truck he was driving overturned on U.S. 83 in Dimmit County.<\/p>\n
The Texas Department of Public Safety said in a statement late Saturday that it is investigating a one-vehicle fatal crash that happened May 1, 2026, at about 9:54 p.m. on U.S. 83 at mile marker 654, about 18 miles south of Carrizo Springs near Catarina.<\/p>\n
A preliminary investigation found a 2020 white International Truck Tractor was traveling southbound on U.S. 83 when it failed to negotiate a curve at an unsafe speed, DPS said. The truck overturned and came to rest in the northbound lane.<\/p>\n
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The driver, identified as James Allen Gabriel, 52, of Weslaco, was pronounced dead at the scene due to injuries sustained in the crash, DPS said. Troopers continue to investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARRIZO SPRINGS, Texas – A 52-year-old Weslaco man was killed late Thursday when the truck he was driving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-276673","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\/276673","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=276673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}