RUSK COUNTY — Tanetrius Lashae Moten and Mesha Lamb, both 27-year-old Arkansas women, died after a head on collision that happened just before 10 p.m. Saturday on Highway 315, just south of Mount. Enterprise.
DPS' Preliminary crash investigation showed that that 44-year-old Houston native, Jose Macias, was heading northeast in a truck-tractor towing a semi-trailer while Moten was traveling southwest in a car on the same roadway.
Moten then tried to pass another vehicle in a no passing zone and hit the Macias' truck-tractor head-on.
Macias was taken to a hospital in Henderson in serious condition as a result of the crash.
Moten and Lamb were both killed, and their bodies were both taken to a funeral home in Henderson.
DPS is still investigating the crash.
