Driver Receives Serious Injury in Huxley Crash

February 16, 2015 - Serious injury resulted from a single-vehicle crash on Sunday, February 15, 2015 and several agencies worked together to help the driver involved in the wreck in Huxley.

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, at 8pm Stephanie Guynes, 41, of Center was traveling southbound in a red Ford Taurus SE on FM 3172 one mile after the intersection with FM 139 when, for an unknown reason, the vehicle left the roadway.

The Taurus traveled across the northbound traffic lane and into the barrow ditch where it rolled and landed upright on its wheels. The Taurus then traveled across the roadway once again and through a fence into a pasture on the southbound side of the road.

For reasons not as yet known by Shelby County Today, and as evidenced by tracks from the vehicle, the Taurus took a route which traversed many areas of the pasture. Once the vehicle was in a low area of the field, it finally came to a halt when it became stuck in mud.

The Center Fire Department was dispatched to the scene of the crash to bring Jaws of Life to help extricate Guynes from the car. Center and Huxley Volunteer Firemen worked together to cut through the car and free Guynes.

Once clear access was gained to Guynes, the emergency personnel worked together to get her onto a stretcher and move Guynes 40 yards up a steep hill to a waiting ambulance.

Guynes was in serious condition and attempts were made by ACE EMS to transport her to the Center Municipal Airport for an ambulatory airplane; however, weather caused the plane to change course. Guynes was instead transported to Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital for treatment.

It was believed Guynes' husband, Tommy, had been in the vehicle just previous to the crash and as emergency personnel were working at removing the Taurus from the pasture, he was located on foot by a passerby on CR 3172 near the intersection with FM 139.

The Texas Department of Public Safety is handling the crash investigation. According to a family member, Guynes was released to her husband from Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital early on Monday morning, February 16. Shelby County Today is glad to report Guynes' injuries were not as serious as were originally indicated at the scene of the crash.