Goodrich man killed in crash with 18-wheeler

LIVINGSTON – A 24- year-old Goodrich man died Tuesday morning after his car slammed into an 18- wheeler on U.S. 59 near Goodrich. Urias Reyes, who was employed as a teller at First National Bank in Livingston, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident by Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace David Johnson. A tractor-trailer driven by James Dean Stanton, 53, of Minnesota had pulled out of a truck stop and was crossing the northbound lanes to a crossover to head south on U.S. 59, according to Trooper Ramey Bass. Reyes was driving a 1993 Mazda northbound and his car struck and ran up underneath the truck’s flatbed trailer. Jaws of Life equipment from the Livingston Volunteer Fire Department was used to free Reyes’ from the wrecked vehicle. His body was taken to Cochran Funeral Home, where services were pending at press time. The accident occurred at approximately 7 a.m. Another Goodrich man was seriously injured in a separate accident at 9:40 a.m. Tuesday on FM 350 North. A 2007 International log truck driven by Eddie Chapman, 26, was northbound and failed to negotiate a curve, according to Trooper Darwon Evans. The truck ran off the left side of the road and rolled onto its left side. Chapman was transported by medical helicopter to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. He was charged with unsafe speed. Emergency workers discovered a small fawn that had apparently been in the truck’s cab at the time of the accident. The fawn was picked up by game wardens and taken to a wildlife rehabilitation facility