SMITH COUNTY (KYTX) -- Investigators are still trying to figure out why a Lindale woman ran off a Smith County road and died just after midnight Wednesday.
38-year-old Windy Holland was driving south on Highway 110 N between Tyler and Garden Valley when the wreck happened. Investigators say Holland hit a culvert, which launched her SUV up into the air. She then hit a utility pole, and investigators say she died on impact.
"It's been very, just very quiet in here," Jinger Johnson said. "It's not usually quiet."
Johnson worked with Holland at the sport clips on South Broadway in Tyler.
"All of this is still, still just kind of sinking in," she said. "She always livened the place up. Always had lots of energy, getting us into mischief and stuff."
Johnson called Holland a good mother and a good wife who lived a clean life.
"We were trying to figure out why she was that far from home, that late at night," she said. "I just, I don't know."
"Preliminary investigation shows that the vehicle went off the road," Trooper Jeanne Dark with the Texas Department of Public Safety said. "Officers believe she was dead at the scene."
That scene told the story of a family ripped apart. A child's toy lay in the middle of the mess, next to a flip flop and a country CD, along with part of a car door and mounds of shattered glass.
"We were all like sisters in here, so it's like losing part of your family," Johnson said.
Troopers say there was no alcohol involved in this crash. It is still under investigation.
