SMITH COUNTY, Tenn. — One person is dead and another has been hospitalized following a Friday night crash in Smith County.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, around 9:10 p.m., troopers responded to a two-vehicle crash on US-69, approximately two miles south of Lindale.
The investigators' preliminary report indicates the driver of a car, identified as Israel Soto, 58, of Tyler, was traveling south on US 69 and made an unsafe left turn directly in the path of a northbound SUV, driven by Deena Turvaville, 58, of Lindale.
Soto was pronounced dead at the scene and his body was taken to a Tyler funeral home.
The crash remains under investigation.
