{"id":1412363,"date":"2025-05-18T08:06:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T13:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1412363"},"modified":"2025-05-20T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:00:38","slug":"jet-ski-crash-leaves-one-in-serious-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1412363","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: One dead after jet ski crash in Lake Tyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/05\/TYL-Lake-Jet-ski-crash-e1747573526470-200x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1412364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/05\/TYL-Lake-Jet-ski-crash-e1747573526470-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/05\/TYL-Lake-Jet-ski-crash-e1747573526470.png 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/> <strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> TYLER &#8211; The Texas Game Wardens have confirmed that a 75-year-old was killed when a jet ski crashed into a boat at Lake Tyler West on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Ward, 75 of Tyler, was killed when his jet ski crashed into what game wardens called a \u201crecreational vessel\u201d that had four occupants. Those four occupants were uninjured in the crash and no alcohol was involved, according to a press release from the Texas Game Wardens.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy has been ordered and the Texas Game Warden State Forensics Reconstruction and Mapping Team is investigating the crash.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>ORIGINAL STORY:<\/strong> Our news partner KETK reports that Smith County Emergency Services District 2 said one person was injured and is in serious condition after a jet ski crash at Lake Tyler on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said one person was riding their jet ski when they were ejected and went underwater at around 5:53 p.m. People nearby were able to pull the person from the water and brought them to the Lake Tyler Marina.<\/p>\n<p>The person was then transported to a local hospital via ambulance to be treated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: TYLER &#8211; The Texas Game Wardens have confirmed that a 75-year-old was killed when a jet ski crashed into a boat at Lake Tyler West on Saturday. Stephen Ward, 75 of Tyler, was killed when his jet ski crashed into what game wardens called a \u201crecreational vessel\u201d that had four occupants. Those four occupants &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1412363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UPDATE: One dead after jet ski crash in Lake Tyler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1412368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/05\/TYL-Lake-Jet-ski-crash-e1747573526470-200x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412363","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 08:12:36","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\/05\/TYL-Lake-Jet-ski-crash-e1747573526470-200x200.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412363","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=1412363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412503,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412363\/revisions\/1412503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1412368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1412363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1412363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1412363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}