U.S. Highway 96 Scene of Two-Vehicle Crash Between Car, Trailer

February 9, 2021 - U.S. Highway 96 South was the scene of a two-vehicle collision between a passenger vehicle and a pole trailer.

When officers arrived on scene, a white vehicle was seen lodged beneath a pole trailer which had been parked well off the roadway.

According to Texas Department of Public Safety State Trooper Dustin Ramos, at an as yet determined time a white 2007 Chevrolet Impala, owned by Becky Sims, was southbound on U.S. Highway 96 South. 

For an unknown reason, the vehicle traveled off the roadway to the left just south of Center and skidded across the roadway before colliding with a parked 1997 pole trailer, owned by Nicholas Santana, and leaving the vehicle lodged beneath the trailer.

At the time officers wee notified of the crash, no one was at the scene, and the incident remains under investigation.