{"id":387417,"date":"2026-07-27T03:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T03:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387417\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T03:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T03:47:15","slug":"2-year-old-among-3-killed-in-wrong-way-crash-officer-hurt-pulling-another-child-from-flames-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387417\/","title":{"rendered":"2-year-old among 3 killed in wrong-way crash; officer hurt pulling another child from flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/07\/24\/3-killed-4-injured-wrong-way-crash-i-27-lubbock-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/07\/24\/3-killed-4-injured-wrong-way-crash-i-27-lubbock-police-say\/\">KCBD<\/a>\/Gray News) &#8211; Police in Texas are investigating a wrong-way crash that killed three people and injured four others Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers in Lubbock were first notified of a wrong-way driver near 19th Street and Interstate 27 at about 7:23 p.m., police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While officers were responding, they were told about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LubbockPD\/posts\/pfbid02QwRuo3PiUWFbmw6dbQhqaVwF8AoXaY8HPdRnt2cdfAaZBdY3FfgEb64oRPQy4N9zl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LubbockPD\/posts\/pfbid02QwRuo3PiUWFbmw6dbQhqaVwF8AoXaY8HPdRnt2cdfAaZBdY3FfgEb64oRPQy4N9zl\">crash involving the wrong-way driver<\/a> and two other vehicles on the interstate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police arrived and found two of the three vehicles engulfed in flames, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators believe a car driven by 29-year-old Oscar Hernandez Sotelo Jr. with two children in the backseat was traveling south in the northbound lanes. Sotelo crashed into a northbound passenger car driven by 24-year-old Jairon Foster, according to Lubbock police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sotelo\u2019s vehicle continued south after the first crash and struck a pickup truck in a head-on collision, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sotelo and a 2-year-old who was in one of the burning vehicles were pronounced dead at the scene, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An officer who pulled a 3-year-old from the same burning vehicle suffered minor injuries during the rescue, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 3-year-old was taken by ambulance to University Medical Center with serious injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Foster was taken to University Medical Center with serious injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Foster\u2019s passenger, 60-year-old Lakecha Collins, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver of the pickup truck, 28-year-old Alexis Wallace, and her 19-year-old passenger, Aaliyah Wallace, were both taken to Covenant Medical Center with serious injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Lubbock Police Department\u2019s crash unit is investigating the deadly incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said initial information shows alcohol and speed might have been factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators are asking witnesses to contact them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtoc.com\/2026\/07\/25\/2-year-old-among-3-killed-wrong-way-crash-officer-hurt-pulling-another-child-flames\/mailto: Haulk@mylubbock.us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wtoc.com\/2026\/07\/25\/2-year-old-among-3-killed-wrong-way-crash-officer-hurt-pulling-another-child-flames\/mailto: Haulk@mylubbock.us\">by email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD via Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD\/Gray News) &#8211; Police in Texas are investigating a wrong-way crash that killed three people and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[268,7553,12948,168,170,169,27],"class_list":["post-387417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-crash","tag-deadly","tag-i-27","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387417","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=387417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}