September 14, 2024 - State Highway 87 North was the scene of a single-vehicle crash near CR 1451 September 13, 2024.
According to Texas Department of Public Safety State Trooper Keith Jones, at 1:50pm a maroon 2020 Hyundai Tucson driven by Susan Elaine Young, 56, was southbound on State Highway 87 when, due to a medical emergency her passenger Mary Sue Steeley, 80, realized the Tucson was about to rear-end another vehicle and took evasive action grabbing the wheel and turning the vehicle off the roadway to the right. The vehicle exited the roadway, traveled over a culvert and struck a pipe fence owned by Gloria Barbee.
Young and Steeley were transported by ambulance to Shelby Emergency Department for treatment and observation.
No citations were issued at the time of the crash.
