{"id":424795,"date":"2026-09-03T07:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424795\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:12:11","slug":"driver-killed-after-suv-slams-into-cement-truck-bursts-into-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424795\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed after SUV slams into cement truck, bursts into flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A driver was killed after an SUV slammed into the back of a cement truck and burst into flames.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened just after 8 a.m. Wednesday off N Loop 1404 W near NW Military Highway on the Northwest Side.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses rushed to help and tried to pull the SUV driver from the wreckage, but the vehicle quickly became engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters arrived and extinguished the fire, but the driver could not be saved and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger in the cement truck was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not released the name of the driver who was killed or said what may have caused the SUV to crash into the cement truck.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A driver was killed after an SUV slammed into the back of a cement truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-424795","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\/424795","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=424795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}