{"id":1422169,"date":"2025-06-26T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T14:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1422169"},"modified":"2025-06-28T11:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T16:58:03","slug":"smith-county-hit-and-run-leaves-bicyclist-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1422169","title":{"rendered":"Smith County hit-and-run leaves bicyclist dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/Fatal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-980015\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8211; Texas Highway Patrol is investigating after a hit-and-run left a bicyclist dead on Thursday in Smith County, according to our news partner KETK.<\/p>\n<p>During the early morning hours on Highway 64 near Big Oak Bay Road, a bicyclist was struck by an unknown vehicle, and the vehicle did not stop. The rider was found dead and the department is investigating this case as a fatal hit-and-run.<\/p>\n<p>East Texans are encouraged to contact the Texas Highway Patrol in Tyler if they have any information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8211; Texas Highway Patrol is investigating after a hit-and-run left a bicyclist dead on Thursday in Smith County, according to our news partner KETK. During the early morning hours on Highway 64 near Big Oak Bay Road, a bicyclist was struck by an unknown vehicle, and the vehicle did not stop. The rider &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1422169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County hit-and-run leaves bicyclist dead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1422354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/Fatal.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 20:31:03","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\/2021\/03\/Fatal.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422169","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=1422169"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422724,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422169\/revisions\/1422724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1422354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1422169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1422169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1422169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}