{"id":937613,"date":"2020-11-16T15:11:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=937613"},"modified":"2020-11-17T15:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T21:11:01","slug":"citation-issued-in-fatal-accident-no-other-charges-to-be-filed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=937613","title":{"rendered":"Citation issued in accident that kills 2, no other charges filed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/11\/Deadly-Crash-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-937617\" \/>TYLER &#8212;  Tyler police say a driver, that caused a wreck killing two people has received a citation, but will not face additional criminal charges. Public Information Officer Andy Erbaugh told KTBB, &#8220;In Texas, you can be charged with intoxicated man-slaughter if you are drunk or high and cause the death of somebody during a traffic accident. So, when you hear from the detective that all they were charged with is failure to yield-right-of-way, then there were neither drugs or alcohol involved; otherwise, there would have been a much higher charge.&#8221; Christopher Little and Edythe Lewis, from Arp, died in the accident at the intersection of New Copeland Road and Loop 323. The driver was cited for failure to yield right-of-way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Tyler police say a driver, that caused a wreck killing two people has received a citation, but will not face additional criminal charges. Public Information Officer Andy Erbaugh told KTBB, &#8220;In Texas, you can be charged with intoxicated man-slaughter if you are drunk or high and cause the death of somebody during a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=937613\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Citation issued in accident that kills 2, no other charges filed<\/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-937613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 23:42:57","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\/937613","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=937613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937632,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937613\/revisions\/937632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}