{"id":404710,"date":"2026-08-12T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404710\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:38:08","slug":"motorcyclist-dies-after-crashing-into-semi-in-amarillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404710\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist dies after crashing into semi in Amarillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) \u2014 A motorcyclist died after a crash involving a tractor-trailer in Amarillo.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened about 11 a.m. Wednesday near South Loop 335 and South Washington Street.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the motorcycle was traveling north on Washington Street while the tractor-trailer was traveling south. The truck was turning left onto the South Loop 335 access road when the motorcycle struck its right side.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries and was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was backed up on Washington Street, and motorists were asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) \u2014 A motorcyclist died after a crash involving a tractor-trailer in Amarillo. The crash happened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-404710","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\/404710","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=404710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}