{"id":1283,"date":"2026-06-03T00:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2026-06-03T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:48:24","slug":"madisonville-officer-possibly-injured-after-patrol-vehicle-hydroplanes-on-highway-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/madisonville-officer-possibly-injured-after-patrol-vehicle-hydroplanes-on-highway-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Madisonville Officer Possibly Injured After Patrol Vehicle Hydroplanes on Highway 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madisonville, Texas &#8211; A Madisonville Police Department officer was taken to the hospital Tuesday after his patrol vehicle crashed while responding to a separate fatal wreck on Highway 21 West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department sent a release out shortly after 5:30 PM stating the crash occurred when the officer was en route to a fatality scene during heavy rain. While traveling on Highway 21 West, the patrol unit hydroplaned on the wet roadway, causing the officer to lose control and leave the roadway in a single\u2011vehicle crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emergency crews transported the officer to a local hospital to be evaluated for possible injuries. No additional vehicles were involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fatal crash the officer was responding to remains under investigation by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Madisonville Police have not yet released further details regarding that incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department has not announced the officer\u2019s condition but stated that updates will be provided as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udcf7 Photo Credit Madisonville Police<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madisonville, Texas &#8211; A Madisonville Police Department officer was taken to the hospital Tuesday after his patrol vehicle crashed while responding to a separate fatal wreck on Highway 21 West. The department sent a release out shortly after 5:30 PM stating the crash occurred when the officer was en route to a fatality scene during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}