{"id":933165,"date":"2020-10-27T11:42:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T16:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=933165"},"modified":"2020-10-28T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T16:42:08","slug":"alleged-drunk-driver-kills-e-tx-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=933165","title":{"rendered":"Alleged drunk driver kills East Texas couple"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"HENDERSON COUNTY — An East Texas couple that were expecting their first child together were killed in an alleged drunk driving crash Sunday, according to our news partner KETK. DPS said LeAnna Hester, 23, of Chandler, was traveling south on FM 315, near Coffee City, when she was struck head-on by Brandon Collins, 20, also of Chandler. Collins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Dodge pickup crossed over the center line and hit Hester\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dodge Neon head-on. Hester was pronounced dead at the scene. Blake Stanford, 24, of Chandler, who was in Hester\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s car, was taken to University of Texas Health Hospital in Tyler, where he later died.<\/p>\n

\"\"Stanford\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mother, Stephanie Pickett, who works are UT Health EMS, said her son Stanford was pronounced dead and that Hester was eight months pregnant when she was killed. Collins was taken to UT Health Hospital in Athens. The DPS report stated that Collins was arrested for intoxication manslaughter. Stanford\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family held an Honors Walk for Stanford Monday Night at UT Health in Tyler. Another memorial service will be held for both Hester, her baby and Stanford at The Carpenter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cross Baptist Church on November 14 at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HENDERSON COUNTY — An East Texas couple that were expecting their first child together were killed in an alleged drunk driving crash Sunday, according to our news partner KETK. DPS said LeAnna Hester, 23, of Chandler, was traveling south on FM 315, near Coffee City, when she was struck head-on by Brandon Collins, 20, also … Continue reading Alleged drunk driver kills East Texas couple<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"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-933165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 05:17:52","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\/933165","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=933165"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933411,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933165\/revisions\/933411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}