{"id":314039,"date":"2014-09-20T08:47:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T13:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=314039"},"modified":"2014-09-22T02:24:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T07:24:15","slug":"identities-released-in-i-20-wrecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=314039","title":{"rendered":"Identities Released in Fatal I-20 Wrecks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/09\/DPS-car.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/09\/DPS-car-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DPS-car\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-314048\" \/><\/a>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; A series of wrecks on Interstate 20 on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning resulted in two deaths, officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety said. According to the Longview News-Journal, Joel Bird and Constance McCumbee of North Carolina died during a wreck that happened about 2:30 a.m. Friday just west of the Scottsville exit on I-20. Officials said a fire engulfed an 18-wheeler involved in a crash with a second tractor-trailer. DPS Trooper Matt Beatty said one tractor-trailer was traveling west when it rear-ended another tractor-trailer, causing the first semi to catch fire. Bird and McCumbee died at the scene.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Traffic was backed up for hours on I-20 in Harrison County. The wreck in Harrison County happened just hours after a seven-vehicle crash shut down eastbound lanes of I-20 in Gregg County for several hours Thursday. That crash happened near Texas 42 about 5 p.m. Weather was a factor in the wrecks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; A series of wrecks on Interstate 20 on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning resulted in two deaths, officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety said. According to the Longview News-Journal, Joel Bird and Constance McCumbee of North Carolina died during a wreck that happened about 2:30 a.m. Friday just west of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=314039\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Identities Released in Fatal I-20 Wrecks<\/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-314039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 18:09:22","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\/314039","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=314039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314061,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314039\/revisions\/314061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}