DPS Investigating Two Crashes

One person died and a second was critically injured from a crash Sunday night on west of Bryan on Highway 21 near OSR. DPS reports the driver of an eastbound pickup went through the median and struck an oncoming car head on. The driver of the truck, 79 year old Joyce Miller of Normangee, was killed. The driver of the car, 19 year old Bernell Sample of Spcewood, was flown to St. Joseph Regional Health Center.

Monday morning, there was a crash on Highway 21 west of Madisonville involving a DPS patrol car and a semi. Sgt. Jimmy Morgan says both drivers were taken to St. Joseph’s with injuries not believed to be life threatening. Morgan says the westbound patrol car was attempting to pass the semi when the trucker attempted to make a left turn into an oilfield.

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