While there is no additional information on what may have caused the wreck, the victim of the fiery crash of a pickup truck into a historic building on the courthouse square in Montague, the driver has been identified as Jason Baraquin, 46, of Oregon.
The Department of Public Safety released his identity Monday, but no other details of the wreck or a preliminary cause of death were available.
The wreck occurred about 9 a.m. on Aug. 19 when the pickup driven by Baraquin ran inside of the old grocery store building at the corner of Franklin and State Highway 59. DPS officials reported the 1999 Chevrolet pickup was traveling south on State Highway 175 when the driver ran through the State Highway 59 intersection, driving past the courthouse and crashing into the front of the building. The truck came to rest several feet inside the building and caught fire.
Debris from the building covered the back part of the truck as the front of the vehicle caught fire, along with parts of the building. Montague Volunteer Fire Department responded quickly and were assisted by Nocona Fire. It took a couple of hours to get the fire out to where a track hoe could be used to pull the truck out of the building.