SMITH COUNTY, Texas — A Tyler man was killed and two people were seriously injured after a head-on two-vehicle collision Thursday afternoon in Smith County.
Alexander N. Woods, 31, of Tyler, was driving west on State Highway 64 five miles west of Tyler while Becky E. Browning, 57, of Irving, was driving east on the same roadway, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
DPS said Woods crossed into oncoming traffic for an unknown reason and struck Browning's vehicle head-on.
Woods was pronounced dead at the scene, while Browning and her passenger Wayne D. Whitworth, 56, of Ben Wheeler, were taken to a Tyler hospital with serious injuries, DPS reported.