Crash Kills Two Near Balmorhea
By: Dylan Brooks
Updated: November 17, 2010
BALMORHEA -- Two men are dead after getting into an accident near Balmorhea.
According to The Odessa American, a semi hit a vehicle that was being towed by a Toyota truck Monday night on Interstate 10. That Toyota hit the guardrail, while the semi tore the towed vehicle away and dragged it down the highway. A Chevy Blazer then hit the Toyota, and both vehicles rolled.
The driver of the Toyota - 50 year-old Rene Castellanos-Villagran - died at the scene. The driver of the Blazer - 63 year-old Donald Robert Jacques -was taken to Reeves County Hospital, where he died.
D.P.S. deputies say neither driver was wearing his seat belt.
