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January 2, 2024 - Emergency responders were dispatched to the scene of a major three-vehicle crash incident on U.S. Highway 96 South early January 2, 2024.
Center Fire Department was dispatched to the scene of the crash to assist those involved and to divert traffic while Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) State Troopers investigated the incident.
According to DPS State Trooper Dustin Ramos at 3:40am a yellow 2020 Freightliner truck tractor, leased by Penske Leasing and Rental, and driven by Weslie Pounds, 61, of Port Arthur, Texas was towing a 2011 Hill Holland Sand trailer northbound on U.S. Highway 96, near CR 1006, when for an unknown reason it left the roadway to the right and overturned in the roadway.
A white 2017 Peterbilt truck tractor driven by Roxie Knighton, 59, of Silsbee and hauling a 1968 trailer loaded with a chemical was also northbound behind the Freighliner and couldn’t initially see the Freighliner which was on its side in the roadway. The Peterbilt struck the 2011 Hill Holland Sand Trailer and subsequently traveled off the roadway to the right before coming to rest.
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Another vehicle, a 2007 Honda Civic driven by Diego Lopez, 25, of Liberty attempted to avoid a collision by traveling in between the trucks and was unable to avoid the collision.
Lopez and Pounds were transported by ambulance to Nacogdoches Medical Center - Shelby Emergency Department for treatment of minor injuries. Knighton was not reported to have been injured.
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The location was under traffic control by TxDOT with only on lane of travel is being utilized until the scene was clear around 9am. Crews with Hopkins Wrecker Service and Sandhill Wrecker Service worked together to get the vehicles removed.
Trooper Ramos was assisted at the scene by Texas DPS Cpl. David Shields, Jr. The crash remains under investigation.
