September 26, 2018
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph –
A Breckenridge, Texas man was pronounced dead at the scene of a one-vehicle truck accident on the Interstate in Wheeler County.
36-year-old James Jenson died after the 2017 Freightliner truck tractor he was driving crashed Monday evening about 7:50 pm.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety report, Jenson’s truck tractor was pulling a semi-trailer east along the interstate in the city limits of Shamrock. For unknown reasons, the vehicle veered off the roadway into the south barrow ditch and collided with a concrete bridge support pillar. The truck caught fire and was completely disintegrated, according to the report.
Road conditions were dry.
The crash remains under investigation.
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