{"id":338011,"date":"2026-06-16T04:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338011\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T04:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:59:07","slug":"6-year-old-faces-long-recovery-after-fatal-head-on-crash-near-lubbock-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338011\/","title":{"rendered":"6-year-old faces long recovery after fatal head-on crash near Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A 6-year-old is facing a long road to recovery after a fatal head-on crash on FM 1585 just west of Highway 62.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators say 49-year-old Joseph Ellis drove head-on into a pickup in the opposite lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ellis and his passenger, 49-year-old Gina Ganaway, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/06\/11\/2-killed-6-year-old-boy-seriously-injured-crash-fm-1585-near-hwy-6282\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/06\/11\/2-killed-6-year-old-boy-seriously-injured-crash-fm-1585-near-hwy-6282\/\">2 killed, 6-year-old boy seriously injured in crash on FM 1585 near Hwy 62\/82<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Six-year-old Tyler was taken to UMC with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a GoFundMe page, Tyler is suffering from swelling on the brain and other trauma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The page explains the funds raised will go directly toward Tyler\u2019s medical bills, therapy, surgeries and any adaptive equipment he may need as he heals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To donate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-tylers-recovery-after-tragic-accident-c2e3u?attribution_id=sl:9f03add5-e160-4701-a35e-0c491709c1c4&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1781491135&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp17_tb-amp20_t1&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-tylers-recovery-after-tragic-accident-c2e3u?attribution_id=sl:9f03add5-e160-4701-a35e-0c491709c1c4&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1781491135&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp17_tb-amp20_t1&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A 6-year-old is facing a long road to recovery after a fatal head-on crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[120492,12147,520,120494,12156,120493,319,66,168,170,169,223],"class_list":["post-338011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-6-year-old","tag-donate","tag-fatal-crash","tag-gina-ganaway","tag-gofundme","tag-joseph-ellis","tag-kcbd","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338011","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=338011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}