{"id":433837,"date":"2026-09-12T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/433837\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:39:09","slug":"two-officers-rescue-unconscious-teen-from-stolen-car-after-high-speed-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/433837\/","title":{"rendered":"Two officers rescue unconscious teen from stolen car after high-speed chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two police officers are being credited with saving a teenager&#8217;s life after pulling him from a burning stolen car following a high-speed chase.<\/p>\n<p>The incident began when officers spotted the stolen vehicle at the intersection of US-77 and Texas 44. Police say the driver ran a red light and sped away.<\/p>\n<p>The chase ended when the car flipped multiple times onto an access road and caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor Danny Martinez and Officer Joshua Rodriguez immediately ran toward the flames. They broke a window and cut a seatbelt to pull the unconscious 18-year-old driver to safety.<\/p>\n<p>The teen survived and is being treated for a broken back.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the same driver had fled from state troopers in Corpus Christi earlier that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two police officers are being credited with saving a teenager&#8217;s life after pulling him from a burning stolen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,268,11603,9521],"class_list":["post-433837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-crash","tag-high-speed-chase","tag-stolen-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433837","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=433837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}