{"id":519020,"date":"2016-08-01T02:35:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T07:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=519020"},"modified":"2016-08-02T03:09:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T08:09:11","slug":"fatal-wreck-east-of-tyler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=519020","title":{"rendered":"Identity Released in Motorcycle Wreck on Hwy 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/11\/DPS-badge2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/11\/DPS-badge2.jpg\" alt=\"DPS badge\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-421452\" \/><\/a>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Troopers respond to a wreck on Hwy 31 east of Loop 323 involving a motorcycle Sunday. According to the crash report, around 12:15, a 2005 Ford pick up was traveling westbound on 31, while a 2012 Suzuki Sportbike motorcycle was traveling eastbound on the same roadway.  The driver of the Ford made a left turn and failed to yield the right of way to the Suzuki. The motorcycle struck the right side of the Ford. The driver of the Ford has been identified as Gary Gage, 70, Big Sandy, and was not injured in the crash. The driver of the Suzuki motorcycle has been identified as Brandon Turner, 32, Longview. Turner was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Troopers respond to a wreck on Hwy 31 east of Loop 323 involving a motorcycle Sunday. According to the crash report, around 12:15, a 2005 Ford pick up was traveling westbound on 31, while a 2012 Suzuki Sportbike motorcycle was traveling eastbound on the same roadway. The driver of the Ford made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=519020\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Identity Released in Motorcycle Wreck on Hwy 31<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":421452,"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-519020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 10:15:59","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\/519020","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=519020"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519142,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519020\/revisions\/519142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/421452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}