{"id":1424719,"date":"2025-07-08T14:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1424719"},"modified":"2025-07-10T23:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:28:18","slug":"fedex-driver-killed-in-highway-64-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1424719","title":{"rendered":"FedEx driver killed in Highway 64 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-08-143242-e1752003220251-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1424720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-08-143242-e1752003220251-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-08-143242-e1752003220251.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 According to a report from our news partner KETK, a FedEx delivery truck driver has died after being ejected from their vehicle on Highway 64 near Chapel Hill on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Smith County Emergency Services District 2 said officials responded to the scene in the 16000 block of Highway 64 at around 1:26 p.m. on Tuesday. The driver was reportedly stepping out of their truck when another vehicle hit the truck and ejected the driver, fatally injuring them.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the driver has not been released to the media at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 According to a report from our news partner KETK, a FedEx delivery truck driver has died after being ejected from their vehicle on Highway 64 near Chapel Hill on Tuesday. Smith County Emergency Services District 2 said officials responded to the scene in the 16000 block of Highway 64 at around 1:26 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1424719\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FedEx driver killed in Highway 64 crash<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1424999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-08-143242-e1752003220251-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424719","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 15:30:29","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\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-08-143242-e1752003220251-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424719","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=1424719"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425379,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424719\/revisions\/1425379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1424999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1424719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1424719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1424719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}