{"id":396479,"date":"2026-08-03T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396479\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:18:10","slug":"watch-texas-sinkhole-swallows-pickup-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396479\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Texas sinkhole swallows pickup truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">According to the Beaumont Police and Fire Department, a sinkhole opened up early on the morning of 2 August swallowing a pickup truck traveling through the intersection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">The sinkhole, estimated at 20 feet wide and 20 feet deep, was filled with several feet of water gushing from a broken water main, the cause of the sinkhole, according to city officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">The driver was able to crawl out of the accident without injury, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Beaumont Police and Fire Department, a sinkhole opened up early on the morning of 2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-396479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396479","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=396479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}