{"id":298401,"date":"2026-05-18T17:29:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/298401\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:29:05","slug":"driver-run-over-by-own-vehicle-after-brief-lubbock-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/298401\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver run over by own vehicle after brief Lubbock pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.everythinglubbock.com\/news\/latest\/driver-run-over-by-own-vehicle-after-brief-lubbock-pursuit\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.everythinglubbock.com\/news\/latest\/driver-run-over-by-own-vehicle-after-brief-lubbock-pursuit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LUBBOCK, Texas<\/a> \u2014 The Lubbock Police Department\u2019s Major Crash Unit is investigating after a brief pursuit early Monday morning in the 2900 block of Avenue N. <\/p>\n<p>According to a press release, officers with the Lubbock Police Department attempted to perform a traffic stop on a vehicle at approximately 4:32 a.m. in the area of 28th Street and Ave P.<\/p>\n<p>LPD officials state that the vehicle then fled from officers, initiating a short pursuit. Officials also state that the driver of the vehicle then attempted to flee on foot in the 2900 block of Avenue N while his vehicle was still in motion. While attempting to flee, the suspect then lost his footing and fell, and his lower body was run over by his own vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle then continued rolling before striking a utility pole. <\/p>\n<p>LPD officials say the driver was transported to University Medical Center by EMS with moderate injuries and charges are still pending.<\/p>\n<p>Visit EverythingLubbock.com for further updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014 The Lubbock Police Department\u2019s Major Crash Unit is investigating after a brief pursuit early Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-298401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298401","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=298401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}