{"id":38339,"date":"2025-08-15T15:02:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=38339"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:02:59","slug":"texas-man-who-lost-loved-ones-in-usps-18-wheeler-crash-shares-moment-he-found-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/08\/15\/texas-man-who-lost-loved-ones-in-usps-18-wheeler-crash-shares-moment-he-found-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man who lost loved ones in USPS 18-wheeler crash shares moment he found out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JgUjgWONrkM?si=qwLE1hUfhntPUcM9\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">In one instant, Anthony Epperson lost his daughter, son-in-law and grandson.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">On June 28, an 18-wheeler\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/crime\/truck-driver-indicted-fatal-i-20-north-texas-crash-killed-five\/287-11c024ad-2ef2-4665-a80f-07fc3f8c1c6b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">slammed into their vehicle in Terrell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">\u201cYou\u2019re talking about an 80,000-pound truck running into them at a standstill,\u201d Epperson said. \u201cThat\u2019s a freight train.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">The crash killed his son-in-law, Zabar McKellar; his daughter, Krishaun; his 16-year-old grandson, Kason; and Zabar\u2019s father, Billy. A fifth person, Nicole Gregory, died in another car.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">Evan, the McKellars\u2019 daughter, lost her foot and has endured more surgeries than her grandfather can recall. Epperson said she does not remember the accident.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">On the day of the crash, the family was returning to Fort Worth from Tyler, where they\u2019d attended a memorial service. Epperson was at work when he saw the wreck on the news.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">\u201cI never thought it was my daughter and her family,\u201d Epperson said.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">It took two days for him to learn the truth. His other daughter called.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">\u201cMy daughter \u2026 told me, \u2018Daddy, are you sitting down?\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-read-break\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">She told him they had died in the crash. He didn\u2019t believe it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/public-safety-and-emergencies\/traffic-and-transportation-incidents\/daddy-are-you-sitting-down-texas-man-who-lost-loved-ones-in-terrell-18-wheeler-crash-shares-moment-he-found-out\/ar-AA1KArqp\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29060 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one instant, Anthony Epperson lost his daughter, son-in-law and grandson. On June 28, an 18-wheeler\u00a0slammed into their vehicle in Terrell. \u201cYou\u2019re talking about an 80,000-pound truck running into them at a standstill,\u201d Epperson said. \u201cThat\u2019s a freight train.\u201d The crash killed his son-in-law, Zabar McKellar; his daughter, Krishaun; his 16-year-old grandson, Kason; and Zabar\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38340,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38339\/revisions\/38340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}