{"id":17599,"date":"2025-01-01T06:21:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T06:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/trucker-seriously-injured-by-reversing-motorist-while-working-on-semi-truck\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T06:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T06:21:49","slug":"trucker-seriously-injured-by-reversing-motorist-while-working-on-semi-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/trucker-seriously-injured-by-reversing-motorist-while-working-on-semi-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Trucker seriously injured by reversing motorist while working on semi truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Police are investigating after a truck driver was seriously hurt by a motorist in a parking lot in Lubbock on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened on December 30th just before 10:45 a.m. in the 4300 block of North Loop 289 in Lubbock, Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2024\/12\/31\/man-seriously-injured-north-lubbock-collision\/\">KCBD 11<\/a>, 36-year-old truck driver Gregg Vargas was working near his semi truck in a convenience store parking lot when he was struck by an SUV.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The SUV was driven by 76-year-old William Nelson, who was backing out of a parking space when he collided with Vargas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vargas was transported to a hospital with serious injuries as a result of the incident. Police are still investigating.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2024\/trucker-seriously-injured-by-reversing-motorist-while-working-on-semi-truck\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after a truck driver was seriously hurt by a motorist in a parking lot in Lubbock on Monday.\u00a0 The accident happened on December 30th just before 10:45 a.m. in the 4300 block of North Loop 289 in Lubbock, Texas.\u00a0 According to KCBD 11, 36-year-old truck driver Gregg Vargas was working near his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}