April 21, 2025 - Emergency responders with multiple agencies were dispatched to a two-vehicle crash Friday, April 18, 2025, involving 18-wheeler truck tractors on State Highway 87 South (SH87).
The vehicles involved remained in the middle of the roadway and blocking traffic at the intersection of FM 414.
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Personnel with the Center Fire Department, Center Police Department, Shelby County Sheriff’s Department, and Shelbyville Volunteer Fire Department all assisted those involved.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the preliminary crash investigation indicates that at approximately 1:15pm, a black 2007 Peterbilt truck tractor semi-trailer driven by Christopher Jernigan, 46, of Center was traveling northwest on SH87. It is reported that a black 2019 Freightliner truck tractor semi-trailer driven by John Joplin, 59, of Garrison was at the intersection on FM 414, and failed to yield to the Peterbilt at the stop sign and pulled into its path where it was struck.
Jernigan was transported by ambulance to the Shelby Emergency Department for treatment of life-threatening injuries.
Joplin was not reported tp have been injured.
According to DPS, there is no further information available.
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