DPS: Lyford man killed in overnight auto-pedestrian crash
1 month 6 days 11 hours ago
Friday, April 30 2021
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April 30, 2021 9:19 AM
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By: KRGV Digital
A 41-year-old Lyford man died in an overnight crash, the agency announced.
Ronald James Whitlock succumbed to his injuries Wednesday after he was struck by a vehicle while walking toward a mailbox, the agency said in a Friday news release.
The crash happened Thursday, April 29 at 10:06 p.m. on F.M. 498, approximately eight miles east of Lyford.
“Preliminary investigation revealed a pedestrian was walking east on the eastbound lane, in unlighted conditions, towards a mailbox,” the agency said in the news release. “A 2016 Black Dodge Dart (occupied by one female driver only) was traveling eastbound on F.M. 498 [in unlighted conditions] and struck the pedestrian.”