{"id":1403904,"date":"2025-04-10T03:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T08:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1403904"},"modified":"2025-04-12T05:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:19:54","slug":"on-duty-wood-county-deputy-killed-in-18-wheeler-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1403904","title":{"rendered":"On duty Wood County deputy killed in 18-wheeler crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1403905\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/2025-04-10_033641-201x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/2025-04-10_033641-201x200.jpg 201w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/2025-04-10_033641.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>WOOD COUNTY \u2013 According to our news partner KETK, an on duty Wood County Sheriff\u2019s deputy has died after a Wednesday morning crash involving an 18-wheeler. Deputy Melissa Pollard was taken to a local hospital in Quitman around 10 a.m. after the accident, but she did not survive her injuries, the Wood County Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease pray for the Pollard family, Wood County Sheriff\u2019s Office family and all other parties involved in this tragedy,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating the accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOOD COUNTY \u2013 According to our news partner KETK, an on duty Wood County Sheriff\u2019s deputy has died after a Wednesday morning crash involving an 18-wheeler. Deputy Melissa Pollard was taken to a local hospital in Quitman around 10 a.m. after the accident, but she did not survive her injuries, the Wood County Sheriff\u2019s Office &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1403904\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On duty Wood County deputy killed in 18-wheeler crash<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1403906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/2025-04-10_033641-201x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 20:55:36","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\/2025\/04\/2025-04-10_033641-201x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403904","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1403904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403914,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403904\/revisions\/1403914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1403906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}