{"id":377706,"date":"2026-07-18T05:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377706\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T05:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:29:36","slug":"houston-man-killed-in-starr-county-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377706\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston man killed in Starr County crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krgv.com\/videos\/mailto:jdeleon@krgv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jose De Leon III<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 67-year-old Houston man was identified as the victim of a fatal two-vehicle crash in Starr County, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened Friday at around 1:40 p.m. on FM 755 south of FM 1017 near the community of La Gloria.<\/p>\n<p>According to a DPS news release, a silver Dodge Ram towing a trailer was heading northbound on FM 755 when a gray Dodge 1500 traveling southbound veered into the northbound lane. The driver of the Dodge Ram swerved to avoid a head-on collision, but the Dodge 1500 still hit the trailer.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger in the Dodge 1500, Noelio Garza Pe\u00f1a, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Dodge 1500 was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, and the driver of the Dodge Ram did not seek medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>DPS troopers are still investigating the crash, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>News<\/p>\n<p>A 67-year-old Houston man was identified as the victim of a fatal two-vehicle crash in Starr County, according to the&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.krgv.com\/news\/houston-man-killed-in-starr-county-crash\" class=\"read-more\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5 hours ago<\/p>\n<p>Friday, July 17 2026<\/p>\n<p>Jul 17, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Friday, July 17, 2026 7:04:00 PM CDT<\/p>\n<p>July 17, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By: Jose De Leon III A 67-year-old Houston man was identified as the victim of a fatal two-vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-377706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377706","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=377706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}