ONE PERSON KILLED IN SINGLE CAR ACCIDENT

  

One person was killed on Sunday six miles west of Brenham after driving off into a median.

According to DPS Trooper Jimmy Morgan, the Department of Public Safety and  the Brenham Fire Department responded to US HWY 290 and Old Burton RD around 6:45pm for a traffic accident with entrapment.

BFD arrived and found a small SUV in the median with one person trapped inside.

According to the DPS, the driver, sixty-four-year old Stephenie Esther Shapiro, of Houston, was traveling eastbound on 290, six miles west of Brenham. The reports say that Shapiro was traveling in the outer lane, and for an unknown reason, changed in the center lane and continued on into the median where she crashed her vehicle.

Fire Department units used extrication equipment to free Shapiro, who was taken by the Washington County EMS to Scott and White Hospital in Brenham and then sent by helicopter to St. Joseph’s in Bryan where she died.

According to reports, Shapiro was wearing a seatbelt.