{"id":395069,"date":"2026-08-01T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395069\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:05:08","slug":"20-year-old-dies-in-crash-after-evading-dps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395069\/","title":{"rendered":"20-year-old dies in crash after evading DPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Tucker and Veronica Rector For the Bulletin<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Public Safety has identified the motorcyclist who was killed in a crash Tuesday afternoon in Bandera County as Cole Justin Davila, 20, of San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>According to DPS, preliminary information indicates a trooper attempted to stop a motorcycle traveling on State Highway 16.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The motorcycle evaded and collided into the rear of a Lexus SUV,&#8217; DPS Sgt. De Luna Jr. said in a statement. &#8216;The rider of the motorcycle, identified as Cole Justin Davila, 20, of San Antonio, was pronounced deceased on scene.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday near the intersection of State Highway 16 South and Farm-to-Market Road 1283.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;No further information is available at this time,&#8217; De Luna said.<\/p>\n<p>In a post shared to the Facebook group Fallen Riders, Eddie Davila, who identified himself as Cole Davila&#8217;s father, thanked the riding community for its support and asked anyone who has photos of his son to share.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I want to thank you all for being part of this group. I&#8217;m still lost for words. My wife and I are struggling with this,&#8217; he wrote. &#8216;We will let you all know once we decide what to do going forward. I ask that you be patient. If anybody has videos or pictures please upload. Thank you all again.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Cole Justin Davila<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Daniel Tucker and Veronica Rector For the Bulletin The Texas Department of Public Safety has identified the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-395069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395069","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=395069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}