{"id":358400,"date":"2026-07-02T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358400\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:01:09","slug":"vehicle-in-the-water-triggers-corpus-christi-ship-channel-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358400\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle in the water triggers Corpus Christi ship channel closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Corpus Christi ship channel in southern Texas was closed on Wednesday after a vehicle entered the waterway, the US Coast Guard said after halting traffic through the key route for American energy shipments.<\/p>\n<p>A man accidentally drove into the water between 05:30 (11:30 GMT) and 06:00, while doing doughnuts on the beach, Port Aransas South Jetty posted on social media, citing police who were planning to remove a pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday afternoon, there was no movement of tankers carrying crude oil, refined petroleum products, or liquefied natural gas through the channel, according to LSEG ship tracking data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Corpus Christi ship channel in southern Texas was closed on Wednesday after a vehicle entered the waterway,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,463,2992,464],"class_list":["post-358400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-north-america","tag-port-of-corpus-christi","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358400","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=358400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}