{"id":73211,"date":"2025-12-02T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73211\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:08:08","slug":"twin-brothers-from-plano-killed-in-thanksgiving-day-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73211\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin brothers from Plano killed in Thanksgiving Day crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/588019234_18069550571368113_7209194627034647863_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Cole and Huxley Gerrard (Jasper High School) <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">PLANO, Texas &#8211; The Plano community is mourning the loss of twin brothers Cole and Huxley Gerrard, who died in a car crash on Thanksgiving Day, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Officers responded to the collision on Interstate 35 at the 382-mile marker around 7:45 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The crash involved a van and an 18-wheeler. Four people in the van were hospitalized. Cole and Huxley Gerrard, the twin brothers, later died from their injuries, according to police.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Investigators believe the crash occurred as traffic was slowly unwinding from an earlier accident nearby. The van crashed into the back of the 18-wheeler, which was traveling at a slower speed due to the traffic.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Officials said they do not believe alcohol was a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The Jasper High School Choir announced the loss of Cole and Huxley Gerrard on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The choir released a statement mourning Huxley, noting that he &#8220;was kind to everyone he met\u2014silly, goofy, hard-working, and full of light&#8230; and was a deeply valued member of our choir.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The organization indicated that upcoming choir performances may be canceled or rescheduled.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The conditions of the other passengers in the van remain unknown. Few other details surrounding the crash have been released by authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from Milford police and social media posts made by Jasper High School.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/collin-county\/plano\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plano<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Cole and Huxley Gerrard (Jasper High School) PLANO, Texas &#8211; The Plano community is mourning the loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[960,223,160,162,161,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-73211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-collin-county","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-plano","11":"tag-plano-headlines","12":"tag-plano-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73211","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=73211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}