{"id":158012,"date":"2012-01-20T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=158012"},"modified":"2012-01-21T07:59:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T13:59:49","slug":"fatal-accident-on-highway-31-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=158012","title":{"rendered":"Victim&#8217;s Name Released in Fatal Accident on Highway 31 East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=158103\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-158103\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/01\/michaelpaz-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"michaelpaz\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-158103\" \/><\/a>SMITH COUNTY \u2014 Authorities have released the identity of a man killed in an accident Thursday in eastern Smith County. Smith County Pct. 4 JP Mitch Shamburger tells KETK the victim was traveling west on Highway 31 from Kilgore to Tyler.   According to authorities, the man, identified as Michael Paz, 26, Kilgore, was passing a car at a high rate of speed as he wove in and out of traffic.  Authorities say he realized he wasn&#8217;t going to make the pass, so he tried to get back into his lane, but over-corrected and clipped a car, sending him head-on into a Jeep.  Shamburger pronounced Paz dead at the scene.  <\/p>\n<p>It is unknown if alcohol was involved in the wreck. A toxicology report has been ordered.  Officials say Paz was wearing a seat belt.  His body has been sent to the Rader funeral home in Kilgore.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY \u2014 Authorities have released the identity of a man killed in an accident Thursday in eastern Smith County. Smith County Pct. 4 JP Mitch Shamburger tells KETK the victim was traveling west on Highway 31 from Kilgore to Tyler. According to authorities, the man, identified as Michael Paz, 26, Kilgore, was passing a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=158012\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Victim&#8217;s Name Released in Fatal Accident on Highway 31 East<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 16:26:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158012","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158012"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158443,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158012\/revisions\/158443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}