WASHINGTON CO. WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH IN DOWNTOWN NAVASOTA

  

A Washington County woman was killed in a head-on collision Monday afternoon in downtown Navasota.

Navasota Police Chief Shawn Myatt reports that around 1:30 p.m., a Nissan passenger car driven by 25-year-old Jullian Book was traveling east in the 100 block of Washington Avenue, between Railroad Street and Farquhar Street, when it drifted into the opposite lane and hit a Ford F-250 pickup head-on.

Book was pronounced dead at the scene.  The driver of the Ford, 59-year-old Steve Austin of Navasota, was transported to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Flying debris from the crash caused damage to a third vehicle that was parked and unoccupied.

The crash remains under investigation.  Both lanes of the roadway were closed for several hours.