{"id":407867,"date":"2026-08-16T05:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407867\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T05:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:12:27","slug":"suspected-drunk-driver-detained-after-sideswiping-san-antonio-police-officer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407867\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected drunk driver detained after sideswiping San Antonio police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014  A suspected intoxicated driver was detained after sideswiping a San Antonio police officer on the city\u2019s Northwest Side.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened around 9:22 p.m. Friday in the 6700 Blk Whitby Road near Barron Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Police said officers were traveling eastbound on Whitby when they saw a vehicle speeding down the road in their direction.<\/p>\n<p>Officers attempted to swerve to avoid a collision but the vehicle sideswiped an officer.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, a 51-year-old man, was detained at the scene and showed signs of intoxication, police said.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A suspected intoxicated driver was detained after sideswiping a San Antonio police officer on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-407867","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\/407867","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=407867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}