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.
So many lives were changed forever. Prayers for the Ullrich Family as well as the Truck driver. How many more have to be injured or killed for TXDOT to address this strip of 290?
Such a tragedy. Praying for the family and for the truck driver. I have always been afraid of that intersection. ??
So sorry to hear of this. They were such sweet people. Prayers to the family and for the other driver.
We passed the accident shortly after it happened; just before police came. So many people stopped to render aid, so we went around the scene on the side road and said prayers for the victims. I was certain someone had died, as I saw the elderly gentleman laying on the ground. My heart breaks for the family left behind and prayers offered for the truck driver who was involved.
Prayers for the families of the deceased and for the driver of the truck. There’s tragedy all around. God bless them all.
Our hearts are broken for this family and their community! Rest in Peace Dean & Joyce.
Praying for loved ones of the two and for the trucker.