Amanda Gardner Dies, Adrian Blood Hospitalized after Mineral Wells Two-Vehicle Crash on US Highway 82 near DeKalb
Mineral Wells, Texas (September 12, 2018) – A driver was killed, and another was hospitalized Tuesday morning after a two-vehicle collision on a highway near DeKalb, according to a local news source.
The fatal collision occurred at about 6:40 a.m. September 11, on US Highway 82.
DPS said a 2013 Chevrolet Impala driven by 35-year-old Amanda Dawn Gardner, of DeKalb, was heading westbound on the highway when it was rear-ended by a 2017 Chevrolet Impala driven by Adrian Severn Blood, 24, of Avery.
The force of the impact sent both cars off the roadway and into the southbound barrow ditch. Gardner’s car overturned before coming to a rest in a ditch. Blood’s car continued traveling for about 100 feet, flipping end over end severally before coming to a rest on its top.
Gardner was pronounced dead at the scene. Blood was taken to St. Michael Hospital in Texarkana with unknown injuries.
The DPS is investigating the crash.
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