{"id":301678,"date":"2014-05-21T03:55:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T08:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=301678"},"modified":"2014-05-22T11:02:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T16:02:35","slug":"fatal-wreck-tuesday-in-gregg-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=301678","title":{"rendered":"Man to Be Charged in Fatal Wreck in Gregg County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/lnjcrashfm1844.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/lnjcrashfm1844-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"lnjcrashfm1844\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-301679\" \/><\/a>EAST MOUNTAIN \u2014 An East Texas man faces criminal charges in a deadly Gregg County crash Tuesday. Smith County Trooper Jean Dark tells KETK the wreck took place at 12:25 p.m. on the 4700 block of FM 1844, half a mile east of East Mountain. Dark said the wreck was caused by a truck driver not paying attention. He\u2019s identified as Leon Gearhart, 31, of Longview, and he\u2019s to be charged with criminally negligent homicide. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dark says a van was waiting to turn left in the westbound lane on 1844 to turn into a private drive when the truck failed to control speed and rear-ended the van in its back left quarter panel. The truck then veered into the eastbound lane and hit a car head-on. The driver of the car, Mattie Jones, 82, of Gilmer, was taken to a Longview hospital. She was pronounced dead by Justice of the Peace B.H. Jameson at 1:41 p.m. Her body was sent to Rader Funeral Home in Longview. Dark said Amie Whitely, 34, of Gladewater, was driving the van. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST MOUNTAIN \u2014 An East Texas man faces criminal charges in a deadly Gregg County crash Tuesday. Smith County Trooper Jean Dark tells KETK the wreck took place at 12:25 p.m. on the 4700 block of FM 1844, half a mile east of East Mountain. Dark said the wreck was caused by a truck driver &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=301678\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man to Be Charged in Fatal Wreck in Gregg County<\/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-301678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 03:31:17","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\/301678","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=301678"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301887,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301678\/revisions\/301887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}