{"id":136062,"date":"2011-10-26T06:33:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T11:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=136062"},"modified":"2011-10-27T02:28:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T07:28:40","slug":"fatal-wreck-on-hwy-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=136062","title":{"rendered":"Kilgore College Twirler Killed in Wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=136301\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/10\/dps-badge2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dps badge\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-136301\" \/><\/a>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Kilgore College student Chelsea Kirkland, 19, Tatum, was killed in a wreck Tuesday morning on Texas 31 in Smith County. Kirkland was a sophomore and a twirler with the Kilgore College band who started classes at the college in fall 2009, college officials said. The fatal wreck happened about 9:00 on Texas 31 near the Smith County Road 25 intersection. Officials said a Cadillac was slowing down to make a U-turn when a sport utility vehicle driven by Kirkland came over a hill and clipped the left rear bumper of the Cadillac. Her SUV went out of control and rolled over several times. Kirkland was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Kilgore College student Chelsea Kirkland, 19, Tatum, was killed in a wreck Tuesday morning on Texas 31 in Smith County. Kirkland was a sophomore and a twirler with the Kilgore College band who started classes at the college in fall 2009, college officials said. The fatal wreck happened about 9:00 on Texas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=136062\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kilgore College Twirler Killed in Wreck<\/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-136062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 03:51:28","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\/136062","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=136062"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136553,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136062\/revisions\/136553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}