{"id":1075975,"date":"2021-11-22T06:45:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1075975"},"modified":"2021-11-23T06:24:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T12:24:27","slug":"dps-trooper-arrests-wrong-way-driver-after-colliding-with-18-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1075975","title":{"rendered":"DPS trooper arrests wrong-way driver after colliding with 18-wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1075976\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/DPS-car-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>VAN ZANDT COUNTY &#8212; On Sunday morning, a DPS trooper arrested a drunk wrong-way driver who ran away after he crashed into an 18-wheeler on I-20 in Van Zandt County. According to our news partner KETK, Christian Gomez was driving eastbound in the westbound lanes when he collided with the 18-wheeler at the 529-mile marker near FM 1255. The vehicle then caught fire and Gomez fled on foot. He was captured a short time later by a DPS trooper and was taken to a local hospital with unknown injuries. Sheriff Steve Hendrix said it appeared alcohol was the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VAN ZANDT COUNTY &#8212; On Sunday morning, a DPS trooper arrested a drunk wrong-way driver who ran away after he crashed into an 18-wheeler on I-20 in Van Zandt County. According to our news partner KETK, Christian Gomez was driving eastbound in the westbound lanes when he collided with the 18-wheeler at the 529-mile marker &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1075975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DPS trooper arrests wrong-way driver after colliding with 18-wheeler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1075979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/DPS-car-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"DPS trooper arrests wrong-way driver after colliding with 18-wheeler","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 15:03:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/DPS-car-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"DPS trooper arrests wrong-way driver after colliding with 18-wheeler","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1075975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076062,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075975\/revisions\/1076062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1075979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1075975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1075975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1075975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}