According to news reports, a tractor-trailer jackknifed and hit the front of the man’s pickup.
December 26, 2018 – 11:45 am: Wet road conditions contributed to the death of a 28-year-old man near Refugio on Wednesday morning. Lyndon Dean of Victoria was killed in a crash with a semi-truck that took place largely because of wet roads.
The crash took place on State Highway 202, where Dean was headed eastbound in a 2015 Chevy pickup.
Weather conditions caused the vehicle in front of him, a 2017 semi tractor-trailer, to jackknife, folding inward and blocking the path of Dean’s vehicle. A Justice of the Peace later arrived on the scene and pronounced Dean dead.
The driver of the semi-truck was taken to Christus Spohn Hospital Shoreline in Corpus Christi. The man was in stable condition on Thursday morning, and is still in the process of recovering from his wounds. The identity of the 42-year-old semi-truck driver has not been made publicly available at this time.
This accident is still under investigation by the Texas Department of Public Safety. DPS is still trying to understand the causes that led the semi-truck to jackknife under those wet road conditions.
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