SMITH COUNTY, Texas — One person is dead and another was injured following a Smith County crash.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, on Saturday, June 3 around 2:20 a.m., troopers responded to a crash on CR 229, near the Chapel Hill area.
The preliminary investigation indicates a car, driven by Joshua Woodral, 28, of Howe, Oklahoma, was traveling south on CR 229 when it lost control in a curve, overturned and came to rest in the ditch.
Woodral was pronounced dead at the scene. His passenger, identified as Michael Beebe, 33, of Tyler, was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The crash remains under investigation.