{"id":277016,"date":"2013-09-18T16:17:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T21:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=277016"},"modified":"2013-09-19T15:59:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T20:59:26","slug":"man-dies-after-car-goes-under-18-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=277016","title":{"rendered":"Former Football Star Dies after Car Goes under 18-Wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=277017\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-277017\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/09\/thumb_DPS-car-2-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_DPS-car-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-277017\" \/><\/a>SMITH COUNTY \u2014  A former Gladewater high school and Baylor football star died Wednesday morning after his car drove  under an 18-wheeler.  KETK reports the accident happened around 10:30 a.m. at Loop 323 and Highway 14 in Smith County. DPS names the victim as Tommie Minter, 74, of Austin.  According to pro-football-reference.com and databasefootball.com, Minter spent the 1962 season with Denver and Buffalo in the American Football League, appearing in 12 games.  Details on how the accident happened weren&#8217;t immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY \u2014 A former Gladewater high school and Baylor football star died Wednesday morning after his car drove under an 18-wheeler. KETK reports the accident happened around 10:30 a.m. at Loop 323 and Highway 14 in Smith County. DPS names the victim as Tommie Minter, 74, of Austin. According to pro-football-reference.com and databasefootball.com, Minter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=277016\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Football Star Dies after Car Goes under 18-Wheeler<\/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-277016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 16:50:26","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\/277016","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=277016"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277048,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277016\/revisions\/277048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}