ANOTHER
UNDERRIDING DEATH. WHEN ARE THE FEDS
GOING TO WAKE UP AND ENSURE THAT THESE AVOIDABLE DEATHS ARE REDUCED?
A CAR VEERED ONTO THE SHOULDER OF I-35 AND STRUCK
A PARKED 18-WHEELER. THE FRONT HALF OF THE CAR ENDED UP BENEATH THE TRAILER OF
THE RIG, KILLING THE DRIVER
January 22, 2015
HILL COUNTY, TEXAS.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers
are investigating an early-morning crash on Interstate 35 in Hill County that
left one man dead.
The DPS identified the victim early Thursday afternoon as
Johnny Ray Carroll, 61, of Plano.
Carroll was driving a 2013 Chevrolet Sonic north on the
interstate at around 6:35 a.m. Thursday when the car veered onto the shoulder
of the highway and struck a parked 18-wheeler, Trooper D.L. Wilson said.
The front half of the car ended up beneath the trailer of
the rig, which was stopped on the shoulder to switch drivers.
Carroll was pronounced dead at the scene.
No one in the cab of the 18-wheeler, which is hauling auto
parts from Laredo to Kentucky, was injured, Wilson said.
The accident happened at mile marker 362 near the rest area
in Hill County, Wilson said.