{"id":8738,"date":"2026-01-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/?p=8738"},"modified":"2026-01-11T11:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:36:02","slug":"thief-river-falls-pickup-hits-pole-on-icy-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/thief-river-falls-pickup-hits-pole-on-icy-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Thief River Falls: Pickup Hits Pole on Icy Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thief River Falls<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trfnews.i234.me<\/a>) \u2014 Police responded to a crash on Greenwood Street East in Thief River Falls on Dec. 26.<\/p>\n<p>The call came in at 2:32 p.m., according to the report.<\/p>\n<h2>What the police say happened<\/h2>\n<p>Police said <strong>Roberto Carlos Palacio Gonzalez<\/strong> of Thief River Falls was driving a <strong>1999 Ford F-150<\/strong> eastbound on Greenwood Street East.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the driver lost control on an icy roadway. The pickup then swerved across the lane and struck a light pole on the north side of the street.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8740\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8740\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8740\" src=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Thief-River-Falls-Pickup-Hits-Pole-on-Icy-Street-300x200.png\" alt=\"Thief River Falls: Pickup Hits Pole on Icy Street\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Thief-River-Falls-Pickup-Hits-Pole-on-Icy-Street-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Thief-River-Falls-Pickup-Hits-Pole-on-Icy-Street-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Thief-River-Falls-Pickup-Hits-Pole-on-Icy-Street-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Thief-River-Falls-Pickup-Hits-Pole-on-Icy-Street.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thief River Falls: Pickup Hits Pole on Icy Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>No injuries reported<\/h2>\n<p>Police reported no known injuries.<\/p>\n<h2>Winter driving reminder<\/h2>\n<p>Authorities often remind drivers to slow down and increase following distance during icy conditions. Road conditions can change quickly during winter weather.<\/p>\n<p>Safety resources:<\/p>\n<p>MnDOT Winter Driving |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/511mn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">511 Minnesota Road Conditions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m Chris Harper reporting for <a href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TRF News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thief River Falls (trfnews.i234.me) \u2014 Police responded to a crash on Greenwood Street East in Thief River Falls on Dec. 26. The call came in at 2:32 p.m., according to the report. What the police say happened Police said Roberto Carlos Palacio Gonzalez of Thief River Falls was driving a 1999 Ford F-150 eastbound on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/thief-river-falls-pickup-hits-pole-on-icy-street\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thief River Falls: Pickup Hits Pole on Icy Street<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":null,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"default","_google_business_share_type":"default","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[12],"tags":[4283,772,827,4279,8385,562,1457,2540,8386,2176,777,3520,6541,824,654,825,778,3419],"class_list":["post-8738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-crash-report","tag-crime","tag-falls","tag-ford-f-150","tag-greenwood-street-east","tag-hits","tag-icy","tag-icy-roads","tag-light-pole-crash","tag-no-injuries","tag-pennington-county","tag-pickup","tag-pole","tag-river","tag-street","tag-thief","tag-thief-river-falls","tag-traffic-accident","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9095,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions\/9095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}