{"id":9490,"date":"2025-09-15T14:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/?p=9490"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:20:32","slug":"man-42-killed-in-trash-truck-collision-in-georgetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/texas-truck-accidents\/man-42-killed-in-trash-truck-collision-in-georgetown\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 42, killed in trash truck collision in Georgetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GEORGETOWN, TX \u2013 A 42-year-old man died last Tuesday, Sept. 9, as a result of a trash truck collision on Interstate 35.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The man was identified as Jonathon Scott Morgan, according to an update from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/traffic\/traffic-alert-i-35-in-georgetown-shut-down-after-truck-hits-overpass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KXAN<\/a>. Preliminary details show that a trash truck driver was driving on the interstate when he crashed into some of the bridge\u2019s beams. The force of the collision caused pieces of the bridge to fall down and then crash into Morgan, who was driving another vehicle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The crash took place on Tuesday, Sept.\u00a0 2, and Morgan died a week later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authorities issued a several-hour-long shutdown and reopened all lanes around 6:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Engineers were summoned to the scene of the crash for inspection purposes. It\u2019s unclear if the structural integrity of the bridge was compromised, although officials did mention possible future closures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1BmKl5i7E0XkATVtkF4mvIbvQ74QTGB0&amp;ehbc=2E312F&amp;noprof=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Truck Accident Lawyers, LLC, we understand the emotional and financial hardships that come as a result of a truck accident. In the event that your loved one died in what could have been a preventable truck crash, consider strong legal support from our team. For decades, we\u2019ve helped families achieve the justice they deserve, having obtained over $1 billion in various truck accident cases. We\u2019re ready to help you with your next steps. Book a free case review with our <a href=\"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Texas truck accident lawyer<\/strong><\/a> by phone at<strong><a href=\"tel:+18887745836\">+18887745836 <\/a><\/strong>or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online <\/a><\/strong>today.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGETOWN, TX \u2013 A 42-year-old man died last Tuesday, Sept. 9, as a result of a trash truck collision on Interstate 35.\u00a0 The man was identified as Jonathon Scott Morgan, according to an update from KXAN. Preliminary details show that a trash truck driver was driving on the interstate when he crashed into some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas-truck-accidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9494,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9490\/revisions\/9494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}