11-Year-Old Boy Dead, Spencer Gull, Dustin Hayes, Emmanuel Compos-Carrera Injured in Italy Crash on Interstate 35 near Bill Lewis Road
Italy, Texas (December 31, 2018) – A 11-year-old boy was killed and five other people were injured Saturday morning in a multi-vehicle collision in Italy, just south of Dallas, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
At around 6:30 a.m. Saturday, December 29, the DPS officers received a report regarding a traffic accident involving two vehicles on Interstate 35 southbound, around one mile south of Bill Lewis Road.
According to the preliminary investigation, a white 2016 Chrysler Town & Country passenger van driven by Spencer Gull, of Guttenberg, Iowa, had hit the rear of another car and became disabled on the center lane of the southbound side of Interstate 35.
Moments later, a white 2013 Dodge 1500 pickup, was heading southbound on the center lane of Interstate 35 when it rear-ended the disabled Chrysler passenger van.
The 11-year-old boy, who was the rear seat passenger in the van, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident by Justice of the Peace.
Gull was taken by a ground ambulance to Parkland Hospital in Dallas with unspecified injuries while the front seat passenger, Dustin Hayes, 36, of Dike, Iowa, was airlifted to Parkland hospital in unknown condition.  The rear seat passenger, a 13-year-old girl, was also taken by a ground ambulance to Childrens hospital in Dallas with unspecified injuries.
Emmanuel Compos-Carrera, 33, of Dallas, who was the driver of the Dodge pickup, was taken to Parkland hospital with unspecified injuries.
The southbound side of Interstate 35 was blocked for around three hours during the investigation but has since been reopened.
No further details regarding the crash were immediately released. The crash remains under investigation.