{"id":18966,"date":"2025-06-27T11:49:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18966\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:49:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:49:25","slug":"san-antonio-woman-dies-following-rollover-crash-involving-sheriffs-deputy-unit-on-u-s-281","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18966\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio woman dies following rollover crash involving sheriff&#8217;s deputy unit on U.S. 281"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CvPdxQXI37xOrzopW15xLwuoM4eMrYXh1s5KOAHUDwl_nQb2FIYe1HJ1olc-YduTqPJsdYIBzpvIqIvqKcYUGDiXOIDp_oG9APRR.jpeg\" alt=\"San Antonio woman dies following rollover crash involving sheriff's deputy unit on U.S. 281\" style=\"display: none;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A 25-year-old San Antonio woman was identified as the driver of a truck who died following a crash involving a patrol unit with the Hidalgo County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened Thursday at around 4:23 p.m. at El Rucio Road on the northbound lanes of U.S. 281 near the area of Linn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release from the Texas Department of Public Safety, the patrol unit was traveling on the shoulder lane when it was sideswiped by a Freightliner truck driven by Casandra Nicole Chavez Martinez as she traveled on the outside lane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Martinez] lost control of the vehicle and veered onto the improved shoulder&#8230; dragging the Hidalgo County Patrol Unit for a short distance,&#8221; the DPS news release stated. &#8220;The Freightliner then veered off the roadway onto the grassy area and rolled over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Martinez was partially ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The male Hidalgo County Sheriff\u2019s deputy was hospitalized with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was diverted to Texas Highway 186 while the northbound lanes of U.S. 281 were closed for about four hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Channel 5 News has a crew heading to the scene, check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old San Antonio woman was identified as the driver of a truck who died following a crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,17933,17932,12428,17931,17930,17929,17928,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-18966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-casandra-nicole-chavez-martinez","10":"tag-deputy-crash","11":"tag-fatal-crash","12":"tag-fatal-crash-linn","13":"tag-hidalgo-county","14":"tag-rgv","15":"tag-rio-grande-valley","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-sanantonio","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114755178551643463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}