NEWS
DPS seeking information on fatality accident
Investigators with the Department of Public Safety are searching for anyone who may have information related to an accident that took the life of a 47-year-old truck driver in late October.
Trooper Rachel Russell investigated the crash that occurred at 8:20 p.m. on Oct. 28 on Farm-to-Market-Road 1655, south of Forestburg.
Erich Lee was driving an 18-wheeler hauling fuel south of Roberts Road when he went off of the road to the east. He came back across the road steering hard going to the west side.
The truck rolled over before sliding off the road into the west bar ditch where it stopped. It caught fire and burned.
“Lee told us he was run off the road by another vehicle going the other direction,” explained Russell. “There were no others at the scene, but they also may not have realized there was a wreck behind them.”
Lee was transported to the hospital where he later died from injuries.
The trooper asks anyone who may have information about this accident to call the Bowie DPS office at 872-3390 or the sheriff’s office at 894-2871.
The regular meeting of the Bowie City Council for July 22 has been cancelled. City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris will be attending the Texas Public Power Association conference.
City of Bowie officials were on hand to inspect the emergency electrical generators that were delivered last week.
Mayor Gaylynn Burris and City Manager Bert Cunningham inspected one of three emergency electrical generators purchased as part of an ongoing Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant. They also talked with Jay Evans, head of the city electric department, and Jerry Sutton, director of the water treatment plant about the next step for installation of the generators.
This grant provides funding for one 150 kW and two 250 kW generators for use at the water treatment plant.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris talk with the electric and water department staff about the new generators. (Photo by Cindy Roller)
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