The Nacogdoches Police Department Traffic Division will be conducting an accident reconstruction into the fatality auto-pedestrian accident that occurred in the 2100 block of E. Main St. on December 31, 2021.
Shoulder lane closures will be in effect Monday and Tuesday in the southbound lanes of US 59 and lanes will merge US 59 and 69 north of the Moffett Road bridge.
Motorists traveling south from Polk County should be aware that U.S. Highway 59 is down to one southbound lane in San Jacinto County near the Liberty County line after a single-engine airplane made an emergency landing Thursday.
Lufkin Police PIO Jessica Pebsworth said that the wreck was on the northbound side of the loop, in front of Loving Toyota. It initially happened at around 5:25 p.m.
Early Wednesday morning Lufkin police were called to the scene of a fatal wreck involving an 18-wheeler that drove through an Autozone on Timberland Drive.
Texas Highway Patrol Troopers will increase enforcement on the roads from Wednesday, Nov. 24, through Sunday, Nov. 28, according to the Department of Public Safety.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. between University Dr. and S. Fredonia St. will be closed to traffic beginning Sunday, Nov. 21 through Tuesday morning, Nov. 23 for repaving of the street section adjacent to Pilgrim’s Pride.
Deer season begins Saturday, and the Autumn season is a peak time for deer related crashes. However, as long as drivers are cautious on roadways, TXDot said there are actions drivers can take to help avoid these wild animals.
In the wake of a three-vehicle wreck, the southbound lanes of N. Timberland Drive in Lufkin are blocked, and traffic is being detoured onto Forest Park Boulevard.
One driver was pronounced dead at the scene and the other driver was transported to a local hospital in critical condition. Neither vehicle had any other occupants besides the drivers, police said.
Crews are still working to offload the propylene gas from a tanker truck that rolled over as it was entering the eastbound ramp of Loop 7 in Athens Friday night.
Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers were called to a two-vehicle crash on US 69 approximately 2 miles north of Jacksonville, in Cherokee County on September 11.
Multiple railroad crossings have been blocked after a train hit a construction vehicle near the intersection of Feagin Drive/Southwood Drive and Loop 287 Monday morning.
