{"id":241946,"date":"2025-09-20T17:34:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/241946\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T17:34:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:34:30","slug":"officer-injured-in-crash-during-procession-for-late-hurst-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/241946\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer injured in crash during procession for late Hurst police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Officer hospitalized after crash during procession for late Hurst chief <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0e7dd156c0a5b7732609bd3c66b7fd09.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/video\/officer-hospitalized-after-crash-during-procession-for-late-hurst-chief\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Officer hospitalized after crash during procession for late Hurst chief<\/p>\n<p>          00:30<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>An officer was injured Thursday afternoon in a crash that occurred during the procession for Hurst Police Chief Steve Niekamp, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/longtime-north-texas-police-chief-dies-sudden-health-complication\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">died suddenly earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened just after 2:30 p.m. at the intersection of Precinct Line Road and River Trails Boulevard in east Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>Officer hospitalized with serious injuries<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth Fire EMS said one patient was transported from the scene with serious injuries. The injured officer was taken to Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>Scene shows damage to Tesla<\/p>\n<p>Chopper video from the scene showed visible damage to a Tesla, including a crushed driver-side door and a missing side mirror.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation ongoing<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth police are working to determine the circumstances surrounding the crash and are expected to release additional details.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officer hospitalized after crash during procession for late Hurst chief Officer hospitalized after crash during procession for late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":241947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,8963,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-241946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-north-texas","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115237832259663925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241946","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=241946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}