{"id":1498425,"date":"2026-04-19T16:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1498425"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:49:41","slug":"long-serving-educator-mourned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1498425","title":{"rendered":"Crash kills practitioner and teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/04\/1000008228-2-e1776977362667-200x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1500430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/04\/1000008228-2-e1776977362667-200x200.webp 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/04\/1000008228-2-e1776977362667-350x350.webp 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/04\/1000008228-2-e1776977362667.webp 545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>LONGVIEW \u2013 <strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Just days after the crash that killed a Longview teacher and a nurse practitioner, Joel Mack\u2019s final act of generosity is unfolding: in less than 24 hours, his organs will be donated to save others.<\/p>\n<p>Newly released details from the Texas Department of Public Safety shed light on the U.S. Highway 259 crash that killed a Longview nurse practitioner and a Longview ISD teacher last weekend. Our news partners at KETK report that the collision occurred at around 3 a.m. on Sunday in the Diana area, involving Longview ISD teacher Kimberly Law and Hospitality Health ER nurse practitioner Joel Mack, DPS confirmed.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Law was allegedly driving south on the northbound lane of U.S. 259 when she struck Mack\u2019s vehicle, which was driving north in the same lane, a preliminary investigation revealed. Law was pronounced dead at the scene and Mack was transported to a local hospital for his injuries where he later died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2013 UPDATE: Just days after the crash that killed a Longview teacher and a nurse practitioner, Joel Mack\u2019s final act of generosity is unfolding: in less than 24 hours, his organs will be donated to save others. Newly released details from the Texas Department of Public Safety shed light on the U.S. Highway 259 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1498425\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crash kills practitioner and teacher<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1498482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/04\/2026-04-19_160926-198x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 09:15:40","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\/04\/2026-04-19_160926-198x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498425","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=1498425"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500431,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498425\/revisions\/1500431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}