{"id":284240,"date":"2026-05-08T10:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/284240\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:56:07","slug":"head-on-crash-in-washington-county-leaves-texas-man-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/284240\/","title":{"rendered":"Head-on crash in Washington County leaves Texas man dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas man died Thursday after a head-on crash along Interstate 70 in Buffalo Township, Washington County.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Hopkins, 23, of Austin was driving east in a sedan around 1:30 p.m. when he lost control, crossed the grassy median and collided with a tractor-trailer in the westbound lanes, according to the Washington County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened just before the Highland Ridge Road overpass.<\/p>\n<p>Hopkins was pronounced dead about an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>State police are investigating the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas man died Thursday after a head-on crash along Interstate 70 in Buffalo Township, Washington County. Joshua&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-284240","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\/284240","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=284240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}