{"id":414886,"date":"2026-08-23T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/414886\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T22:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:00:16","slug":"texas-man-killed-in-coosa-county-crash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/414886\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man killed in Coosa County crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COOSA COUNTY, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsfa.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/www.wsfa.com\">WSFA<\/a>) &#8211; A man from Texas died in a vehicle crash in Coosa County Sunday morning, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Captain Jeremy Burkett, the crash happened around 3 a.m. on Coosa County 42 near Coosa County 217 just east of Rockford. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ricky T. Montz, 68, was fatally injured after his vehicle left the roadway and struck and embankment, ALEA said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">First responders pronounced him dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">ALEA\u2019s Highway Patrol Division is investigating the cause of the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Not reading this story on the WSFA News App? Get news alerts FASTER and FREE in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wsfa-12-news\/id449733109\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple App Store<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.raycom.wsfa&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play Store<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WSFA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COOSA COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA) &#8211; A man from Texas died in a vehicle crash in Coosa County Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[144586,9877,7054,27,29,28,9875,9874,9876],"class_list":["post-414886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-coosa-county","tag-montgomery","tag-montgomery-county","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-wfsa","tag-wsfa","tag-wsfa-12-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414886","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=414886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}