{"id":132352,"date":"2011-10-11T09:42:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=132352"},"modified":"2011-10-12T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:30:32","slug":"woman-struck-by-suspected-drunk-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=132352","title":{"rendered":"Woman Struck by Suspected Drunk Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=132539\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-132539\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/10\/Lufkin-Police-Patch2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lufkin Police Patch2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-132539\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLUFKIN \u2014 Lufkin police officers were dispatched to 216 South Timberland Dr. in response to a motor vehicle accident involving a pedestrian shortly after midnight Saturday morning. A witness at the scene reported seeing the suspect\u2019s vehicle driving recklessly and weaving through traffic on Timberland Drive at a high rate of speed prior to the accident. The witness reported that the suspect\u2019s vehicle then turned sharply, traveling fast, into the restaurant parking lot and struck a pedestrian riding a bicycle through the parking lot entrance. <\/p>\n<p>The driver, identified as Martin Ramirez Jr., 20, of Lufkin, was detained. The on-scene investigation with Ramirez revealed evidence of intoxication, and examination of the damage to the vehicle that Ramirez Jr. was driving matched evidence found at the accident scene. The victim, Rhonda Elizondo, 18, of Lufkin, was transported by ambulance to Memorial Hospital for treatment. Ramirez was transported to the Angelina County Jail and booked in for driving while intoxicated and for failure to stop at an accident involving injury, according to Lufkin Police reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUFKIN \u2014 Lufkin police officers were dispatched to 216 South Timberland Dr. in response to a motor vehicle accident involving a pedestrian shortly after midnight Saturday morning. A witness at the scene reported seeing the suspect\u2019s vehicle driving recklessly and weaving through traffic on Timberland Drive at a high rate of speed prior to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=132352\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woman Struck by Suspected Drunk Driver<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 21:13:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132352","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132352"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132641,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132352\/revisions\/132641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}