{"id":1471800,"date":"2026-01-17T23:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1471800"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:21:20","slug":"driver-dead-2-injured-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1471800","title":{"rendered":"Driver dead, 2 injured in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/2026-01-17_232309-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1471801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/2026-01-17_232309-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/2026-01-17_232309-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/2026-01-17_232309.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>LUFKIN \u2013 A man and a dog died in a crash on College Drive in Lufkin on Saturday morning, according to our news partner KETK and the Lufkin Police Department.  Demarcus Hadnot, 26 of Pollok, was driving west on College Drive near the Texas Bible College when a Mercedes crashed into Hadnot\u2019s Kia at around 10:15 a.m. on Saturday. A passenger from the Kia has been flown to a local hospital to be treated for injuries while the 65-year-old driver of the Mercedes received non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Lufkin PD added that a dog riding in the Kia also died at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUFKIN \u2013 A man and a dog died in a crash on College Drive in Lufkin on Saturday morning, according to our news partner KETK and the Lufkin Police Department. Demarcus Hadnot, 26 of Pollok, was driving west on College Drive near the Texas Bible College when a Mercedes crashed into Hadnot\u2019s Kia at around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1471800\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Driver dead, 2 injured in crash<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1472040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/2026-01-17_232309-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 06:04:15","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\/2026\/01\/2026-01-17_232309-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471800","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=1471800"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473488,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471800\/revisions\/1473488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1472040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1471800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1471800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1471800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}