Athens Review, Athens, Texas

January 28, 2010

3 killed in two-vehicle, head-on E Texas collision

Associated Press

LUFKIN — A two-car, head-on collision on a rural East Texas road has killed three people.

The crash happened about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday on Farm Road 842, about five miles northeast of Lufkin. The Texas Department of Public Safety reports that a northbound car crossed into the southbound lane and slammed into another.

Dead at the scene were both people in the second car, 72-year-old Billy Simms and 68-year-old Joyce Simms, and the lone occupant of the first car, 20-year-old Jerry Matthew Miller. All three were from Lufkin.

The crash remains under investigation.