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Newton County accident kills one, injures one
Comments 0 | Recommend 0NEWTON COUNTY - by Steve Stewart - A Louisiana man is dead, and a Brookeland man has been injured following an overnight accident in Newton County.
The Texas Department of Public Safety says the accident occurred at 2:25 Friday morning on Farm-to-Market Road 1414, about 7 miles south of Burkeville.
Trooper Travis Richnow investigated the crash, his report said a 2003 Ford F-150 pickup truck, driven by 22-year-old Terry Bozeman of Many, Louisiana, was southbound at a high rate of speed when he lost control of the vehicle, left the roadway, and rolled over. Bozeman, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the truck and died at the scene. He was pronounced dead by Justice of the Peace Jimmy Hopson.
Meanwhile, the passenger in the truck, 37-year-old James Frederick May, Jr., is undergoing treatment at Christus Jasper Memorial Hospital for non-life threatening injuries. The report said May was wearing his seatbelt.
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