Three killed in separate car crashes in Erath County; two were teens, DPS says
.jpg "Three people have died since Thursday in separate traffic wrecks in Erath County. Two of the victims were teens, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.")
Two teens and a 20-year-old driver have died in separate traffic wrecks in Erath County in the past four days, according to officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The two teens, a 17-year-old boy from Comanche and an 18-year-old girl from Denton, were killed Sunday in crashes near Stephenville.
Stephenville is about 80 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
The series of fatal crashes began at 11:30 p.m. Thursday on Texas 108, about 6.6 miles north of Stephenville.
The driver was in a 2007 Ford F-150 traveling north on Texas 108 when he drifted off the right side of the roadway, struck a culvert and overturned. The driver was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced deceased at the scene.
He was not wearing a seatbelt, according to DPS reports.
The driver was identified as 20-year-old Bradon A. Garcia of Sherman.
The second wreck occurred just after 6 a.m. Sunday on US 281, about two miles north of Stephenville.
Robert B. Askew, 17, of Comanche, was driving south on US 281 when he veered across the northbound lanes of US 281, into the northbound barrow ditch, and struck a tree. Askew was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The third fatal accident was a head-on collision Sunday night on US 281 about seven miles north of Stephenville.
The fatal crash occurred about 9:40 p.m. Sunday when a 2022 Nissan Kicks and a tractor-trailer collided.
DPS reports indicated that 18-year-old Hailee S. Verret, 18, of Denton, was traveling north in her 2022 Nissan Kicks on US 281 in the southbound lane and struck the tractor-trailer.
Verret died at the scene. The 38-year-old driver of the other vehicle was treated and released at the scene.
This story was originally published October 24, 2022 at 1:15 PM.
