{"id":383079,"date":"2026-07-22T23:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383079\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T23:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:16:22","slug":"one-killed-in-crash-on-us-84-in-garza-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383079\/","title":{"rendered":"One killed in crash on US 84 in Garza County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GARZA COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas DPS says a 77-year-old Willow Park man was killed Wednesday morning after his pickup drifted into an adjacent lane and was struck by a semi-truck on US Highway 84.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash occurred at approximately 7:26 a.m. at the intersection of US Highway 84 and FM 211 in Garza County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a preliminary DPS investigation, both vehicles were traveling northwest on US 84. The semi-truck was in the left lane and the pickup was in the right lane when the pickup began to drift left for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The semi struck the driver\u2019s side of the pickup. Both vehicles then traveled into the center median and struck the cable barrier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Richard Baack, 77, of Willow Park, was pronounced dead at the scene. Baack was wearing a seatbelt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The semi driver was not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DPS said the cause of the drift remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARZA COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas DPS says a 77-year-old Willow Park man was killed Wednesday morning after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,123332],"class_list":["post-383079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-the-top-photos-of-the-day-by-ap-photojournalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383079","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=383079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}