SMITH COUNTY, Texas — Officials have identified the man who was killed and three who were injured after getting ejected from a truck on Interstate 20 near Lindale in Smith County during a two-vehicle wreck Tuesday night.
Khaled J. Al Masalmah, 20, of Fort Worth, was driving a 2012 GMC Sierra with three other people as passengers behind a 2020 Freightliner Truck Tractor towing a 2020 Reitnouer semi-trailer in the westbound side on I-20, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Al Masalmah's vehicle crashed into the back left side of the freightliner, and Al Masalmah lost control and rolled over, DPS said.
Al Masalmah was pronounced dead at a Tyler hospital. Alaa H. Fares, 23, of Wylie, Mohommad G. Al Mahasneh, 34, of Wylie, Mohommad H. Alachmouti, 21, of Plano, were taken to Tyler hospitals for their injuries, according to DPS.
The driver of the freightliner, Shaludzko Bahdan, 39, of Boco Raton, Florida, was not injured, DPS said.