{"id":434261,"date":"2026-09-12T22:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434261\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T22:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:54:22","slug":"gov-abbott-honors-lubbock-sheriffs-deputies-1-year-after-i-27-bridge-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434261\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Abbott honors Lubbock sheriff\u2019s deputies 1 year after I-27 bridge crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Two Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s deputies received the Star of Texas Award after they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/09\/08\/2-lubbock-county-sheriffs-deputies-seriously-injured-crash-i-27-98th-street\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/09\/08\/2-lubbock-county-sheriffs-deputies-seriously-injured-crash-i-27-98th-street\/\">were injured in a crash last year on I-27 at 98th Street<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On September 8, 2025, deputies Andrew Cavazos and Jorge Martinez were assisting a motorist changing a flat tire on the side of the road when a semi-truck rear-ended their patrol units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two deputies were pinned between their unit and a concrete barrier. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/09\/10\/good-samaritans-recall-rescuing-lubbock-county-deputies-pinned-by-patrol-car\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/09\/10\/good-samaritans-recall-rescuing-lubbock-county-deputies-pinned-by-patrol-car\/\">Good samaritans who witnessed the crash rushed to their aid<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Governor Abbott presented medals to honorees and family members of peace officers, firefighters and emergency first responders who were killed or seriously injured in the line of duty.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Two Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s deputies received the Star of Texas Award after they were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4195,319,251,168,19888,170,169,150429],"class_list":["post-434261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-governor-abbott","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-county-sheriffs-office","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-star-of-texas-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434261","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=434261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}