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A 16-year-old girl from North Richland Hills died Thursday in a wreck in Jack County, a highway patrol trooper said.
Tifanie Perkins was a passenger in pickup truck that crashed on U.S. 380, about a mile west of Bryson in Jack County, Trooper Jason Yoder said. The area is near the county line shared with Young County.Yoder said he was summoned to the wreck at 7:50 p.m.A major wildfire was burning in the area Thursday night, and it continued burning Friday morning, but Yoder said smoke did not obscure the highway.The white Dodge pickup was driven by Billie McComack, 19, of Loving, a community in neighboring Young County, Yoder said.The truck was westbound on U.S. 380, destined for Graham, the county seat of Young County, Yoder said.Meanwhile, he said, a work truck operated by an electric utility company was also westbound on the highway, ahead of the Dodge.The driver of the work truck slowed to turn south onto Farm Road 3029 to respond to power lines that were downed by the fire, Yoder said. At the same time, however, McComack tried to pass the work truck, Yoder said. The trooper said that stretch of highway was a no-passing zone with solid double yellow stripes. McComack suddenly realized the truck ahead of him was turning left, so he hit his brakes, Yoder said.The Dodge skidded into a ditch on the south side of the highway and crashed into an earthen embankment that was part of a drainage structure, Yoder said.McComack was not hurt, but Perkins was pronounced dead at the scene by Jack County Judge Mitchell Davenport, Yoder said.The wreck was still under investigation Friday. Yoder said he will turn his report over to the district attorney's office, which will determine if any charges will be filed.Perkins was a sophomore at Glenview Christian School in Fort Worth where she was a cheerleader and a member of the basketball and golf teams, a school spokesman said. No other information was immediately available.
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