{"id":434231,"date":"2026-09-12T22:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434231\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T22:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:12:09","slug":"crash-in-sabine-parish-kills-arlington-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434231\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash in Sabine Parish kills Arlington man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SABINE PARISH, La. (KALB) &#8211; Louisiana State Police Troop E reported the death of Carlos Coba Melendez, 32, of Arlington, Texas, following a fatal crash on September 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Troopers were sent out to Hwy 191 near Alvin Curtis Road at around 2 p.m. on Friday after receiving reports of a crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At the scene, they determined that Melendez was driving south on Hwy 191 when, for reasons not yet known, his vehicle left the road, over-corrected and flipped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Melendez was wearing a seatbelt, was fatally injured and died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Troopers say a passenger was also in the vehicle. They were not wearing a seatbelt and were uninjured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Toxicology samples were collected for analysis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Their investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kalb.com\/2026\/09\/12\/crash-sabine-parish-kills-arlington-man\/mailto:news@kalb.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to report a typo. Please provide the title of the article in your email.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KALB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SABINE PARISH, La. (KALB) &#8211; Louisiana State Police Troop E reported the death of Carlos Coba Melendez, 32,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-434231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434231","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=434231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}