Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
Texas Department of Public Safety officials are investigating a vehicle crash on U.S. 385 just south of Vega that killed a Tucumcari woman on April 6.
Theresa Clark, 72, was driving west in a sport-utility vehicle on an Interstate 40 access road about 11:40 a.m. when she failed to yield at a stop sign, according to the agency.
Clark pulled her vehicle in front of a northbound semi-tractor trailer on U.S. 385 driven by David Reyes Jr. of Dimmitt, Texas, and was struck on the driver’s side door.
Clark was pronounced dead at the scene by an Oldham County justice of the peace.
Her passenger, Del Clark, 75, was transported to Amarillo Northwest Texas Hospital with injuries that were deemed not life-threatening.
The truck driver had no injuries. According to the highway patrol, everyone involved in the accident was wearing seat belts.