Jonny Goodday | Goodday Mineral Wells | 12/12/2020 |DPS Updates
MINERAL WELLS – On December 12, 2020 at approximately 5:00 a. m., the Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers investigated a two-vehicle fatality crash on US Highway 281, half a mile south of Mineral Wells.
Preliminary investigation indicates a 1998 Jeep Cherokee, for an undetermined reason, was traveling south on US Highway 281 in the northbound lane. A northbound 2013 Kenworth truck tractor, which was towing a livestock trailer loaded with cattle, could not avoid the Jeep and struck it head-on. The Jeep traveled into the west barrow ditch and came to rest. The driver, 35-year-old Marcus Lee Risk, of Lipan, was pronounced deceased at the scene. The Kenworth and trailer went into the east barrow ditch, where it overturned. The driver of the Kenworth, Steven L. Prock, 40, and a 28-year-old passenger, both from Grand Saline, were not injured.
Several head of cattle were also killed or injured, which resulted in US 281 being closed for several hours during the cleanup.
Information provided by Richard A. Hunter, Sergeant with the Texas Department of Public Safety
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