RUSK COUNTY, Texas — A Henderson woman is dead following a Friday morning fiery crash.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, around 1 a.m., troopers responded to a fatal crash on State Highway 323, about four miles east of New London.
The investigator's preliminary report indicates the driver of a passenger car, identified as, Angela Jones, 50, was traveling west on SH 323 when, for an unknown reason, the vehicle went off the roadway to the north, struck a large tree and caught fire.
Judge Cindy Redmon pronounced Jones dead at the scene and her body was taken to a Henderson-area funeral home.
The crash remains under investigation.
