BELL COUNTY, TX : Multiple drivers taken to hospital after chain-reaction crash on Wednesday, 26th April 2023

Multiple drivers were taken to the hospital after a chain-reaction crash involving a “truck tractor” in Bell County during Wednesday’s wet weather.

The crash occurred about 8:30 a.m. on FM 439 / Sparta Road, the Texas Department of Public Safety said Thursday.

“A 1997 Freightliner truck tractor, operated by a 41-year-old male from Mt. Pleasant, Texas, was traveling westbound on FM 439,” DPS said. “... The truck tractor was traveling at an unsafe speed for the wet roadway. As the driver of the truck tractor applied his brakes, the truck lost control and jack-knifed.



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