November 1, 2016 - FM 947 two and a half miles outside of Tenaha was the scene of a single-vehicle rollover from which two people involved were taken to the hospital.
The Tenaha City Marshal's Office, Tenaha Volunteer Fire Department and ACE EMS were all initially dispatched top the scene of the crash to help those involved.
According to Texas Department of Public Safety State Trooper Austin Lunsford, at approximately 4:44pm a 1995 Infinity passenger car driven by Sylvia Jeanett Hodge, 32, of Gary was traveling west on FM 947. The Infinity left the roadway to the right and began to roll into the westbound bar ditch of the roadway.
Field sobriety tests were conducted and Hodge was found to be intoxicated. She was transported by ACE EMS to Tenaha where she was life-flighted to LSU hospital in Shreveport with incapacitating injuries.
Hodge's passenger Jeremy Blane Rhodes, 41, of Gary was transported by ACE EMS to Nacogdoches Medical Center - Center Emergency Department with non life threatening injuries.
