Boy Hospitalized after Wise County Two-Vehicle Crash on Texas 199 near Farm Road 920
Wise County, Texas (December 29, 2018) – A 13-year-old boy was injured in a two-vehicle crash early Christmas morning in Wise County, according to a local news source.
The crash occurred at an unspecified time on Tuesday, December 25, on Texas 199 near Farm Road 920.
According to a preliminary investigation, a 2018 International truck which was towing a trailer, driven by Anthony Godwin, 25, turned from a gas station to head westbound on Texas 199. The truck failed to yield the right of way to a 1992 Chevrolet pickup driven by Jeffrey Hoopman, 32. The pickup then rear-ended the trailer.
First responders extricated the boy, who was a passenger in the pickup, from the wreckage.
The victim was taken to Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth with unspecified injuries.
Hoopman and Godwin were uninjured in the crash.
The DPS is investigating the crash.