TWO KILLED IN CARMINE ACCIDENT MONDAY

  

Two Fayette County residents are dead following a vehicle collision on Highway 290 near Carmine, just before noon, Monday.

According to the Department of Public Safety, the accident occurred just inside the Carmine city limits.

DPS Trooper Cameron Janda reports a 2012 Ford Escape pulled onto 290 off of North Hauptstrasse Street into the path of a west bound 2004 Peterbilt hauling a trailer.  The truck then struck the Escape in the driver’s side.

Pronounced dead at the scene were the driver and a passenger of the Escape: 79-year old Joyce Fischer Ullrich and 81-year old Ilo Dean Ullrich, both of Carmine.  Both were pronounced dead at the scene by Fayette County Justice of the Peace Sheila Coufal.  Their bodies were taken to the Fayette Memorial Funeral Home in LaGrange.

The driver of the Peterbilt, 57-year old George Collins Jr. of Chappell Hill, was not injured in the collision.