{"id":360426,"date":"2026-07-03T22:38:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360426\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T22:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:38:44","slug":"austin-police-officer-pleads-guilty-to-speeding-after-crash-that-injured-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360426\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin police officer pleads guilty to speeding after crash that injured two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 An Austin Police Department officer pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of speeding stemming from a January 2025 collision that injured two people, the Travis County District Attorney&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Daniel Robert Kessler Jr. entered the plea Thursday in connection with a Jan. 21, 2025, crash in which his squad car, responding to an emergency call, collided with three other vehicles. The two other drivers were injured in the collision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/us-marshals-task-force-arrests-suspect-in-april-nw-austin-homicide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | US Marshals task force arrests suspect in April NW Austin homicide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the plea agreement, Kessler will be convicted of speeding and pay the maximum fine of $500 for each count.<\/p>\n<p>The case stemmed from an investigation by APD&#8217;s Special Investigations Unit, which was referred to the Travis County District Attorney&#8217;s Office and jointly investigated with the office&#8217;s Civil Rights Unit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thank the Austin Police Department for bringing this incident to our attention, as it was jointly investigated by APD&#8217;s Special Investigations Unit and our Civil Rights Unit,&#8221; Travis County District Attorney Jos\u00e9 Garza said. &#8220;We hope this conviction continues to help the accident victims with their healing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 An Austin Police Department officer pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of speeding stemming from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-360426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360426","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=360426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}