{"id":61488,"date":"2025-11-23T07:43:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/61488\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T07:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:43:30","slug":"encino-man-dies-after-head-on-collision-with-forklift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/61488\/","title":{"rendered":"Encino man dies after head-on collision with forklift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A 63-year-old Encino man was killed early Tuesday after his car collided head-on with a disabled forklift on FM 430, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 6:53 a.m. near County Road 315. Troopers said a 2021 Toyota Corolla driven by Joel Perez was traveling westbound behind several other vehicles, creating a heavy cloud of dust. At the same time, a forklift was stopped on the eastbound side of the roadway because of mechanical issues.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Perez\u2019s vehicle moved into the eastbound lane and struck the forklift head-on. He died at the scene and was pronounced dead by Justice of the Peace Roland Garza.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation by the DPS Falfurrias Highway Patrol Office.<\/p>\n<p>More from 3NEWS on KIIITV.com: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/encino-man-dies-after-head-on-collision-forklift\/mailto:tell3@kiiitv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tell3@kiiitv.com<\/a> so we can get in touch with you about your story should we have questions or need more information. We realize some stories are sensitive in nature. Let us know if you&#8217;d like to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A 63-year-old Encino man was killed early Tuesday after his car collided head-on with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-61488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61488","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=61488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}