{"id":1418330,"date":"2025-06-13T12:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1418330"},"modified":"2025-06-17T03:11:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:11:52","slug":"two-dead-in-cherokee-county-after-18-wheeler-crashes-into-pickup-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1418330","title":{"rendered":"Two dead after 18-wheeler crashes into pickup truck"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHEROKEE COUNTY \u2013 \"\"Our news partners at KETK report two people are dead after an 18-wheeler crashed into a pickup truck on U.S. Highway 69 early Friday morning. According to Texas Department of Public Safety, around 5:30 a.m. the 18-wheeler was traveling north near County Road 2745 at while the pick up truck was going southbound. Officials say the pickup truck was struck on the driver\u2019s side and rolled over on its roof into a ditch. The driver and the passenger in the truck were pronounced dead at the scene. The identities of the people killed are unknown, and the driver of the 18-wheeler was taken to the hospital to treat his injuries. The investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHEROKEE COUNTY \u2013 Our news partners at KETK report two people are dead after an 18-wheeler crashed into a pickup truck on U.S. Highway 69 early Friday morning. According to Texas Department of Public Safety, around 5:30 a.m. the 18-wheeler was traveling north near County Road 2745 at while the pick up truck was going … Continue reading Two dead after 18-wheeler crashes into pickup truck<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1418575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/10\/police-lights-e1730225316337-225x193.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418330","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 04:39:26","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\/2024\/10\/police-lights-e1730225316337-225x193.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418330","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418330"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418986,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418330\/revisions\/1418986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1418575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}