{"id":377909,"date":"2026-07-18T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377909\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T13:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:01:18","slug":"houston-man-killed-in-starr-county-crash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377909\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston man killed in Starr County crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ohIFx9m3rnDzAMx2h6weAQdVqRFNHUbJJK5RGhTTkwp7ruvs5lChc3K3HQQ6GGZIRMRYMib-IFNrC3ajXp_I-j0Wft3SuHVNYu4W.jpeg\" alt=\"Houston man killed in Starr County crash\" style=\"display: none;\"\/><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 67-year-old Houston man was identified as the victim of a fatal two-vehicle crash in Starr County, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[133645,133647,56,58,133643,57,133646,133641,1473,133648,1472,133642,133644],"class_list":["post-377909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-fm-755-accident","tag-head-on-collision-dodge-ram","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-man-killed-starr-county","tag-houston-news","tag-la-gloria-tx-traffic-fatality","tag-noelio-garza-pena","tag-rgv","tag-rgv-accident-news","tag-rio-grande-valley","tag-starr-county-fatal-crash","tag-texas-dps-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377909","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=377909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377909\/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=377909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}