August 11, 2024 - U.S. Highway 59 in Tenaha was the scene of a two-vehicle crash involving a log truck and a passenger vehicle Friday, August 9, 2024, at around 10:30am.
Responding to the scene were the Tenaha Volunteer Fire Department, Taylor Fanguy, Constable Precinct 4; and Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) State Troopers.
According to Texas DPS Trooper Keith Jones, a silver 2013 Honda CRV driven by Michael Alen Loebig, 70, of Texarkana was southbound on U.S. Highway 59 when the Loebig took the Houston exit and while traveling off the ramp. The Honda entered into the southbound traffic lane and struck a green Peterbilt 389 truck tractor owned by Turnip Seed Trucking and driven by Jackie M. Cunningham, 68, of Mansfield.
Loebig and his passenger Vicky May Loebig, 68, were each transported by ambulance to a Nacogdoches Medical Center for medical evaluation.
Loebig was issued a citation for change lanes when unsafe.
