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A semi-truck with a trailer full of white powder used in cosmetics was making a sharp turn at South Park Avenue and Crawford Road at about 6:00am, when its trailer became disconnected and moved into the path of a tanker truck driven by Jermon Jeffers, 40, who collided with it head-on. The powder in the trailer spilled all of the roadway and caught fire. Jeffers was trapped in his vehicle and pronounced dead when he was finally extricated.

Jorge Rico, 22, killed, after his car traveling in the wrong direction crashes into a tractor-trailer on the I-635 east on-ramp from Highway 114 near Grapevine, Texas

Date:

Sunday, March 9, 2014

Area:

Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX

A man from North Richland Hills is dead after his car collided with a tractor-trailer around 4:04 a.m. on the on-ramp to the eastbound lanes of I-635E from Highway 114. Police say the man was traveling the wrong way when his Honda collided head-on with the semi. The driver has been identified as 22-year-old Jorge Rico. Rico’s time of death is listed on the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s website as 4:15 a.m., with a cause of death being multiple blunt force injuries. Rico was the only person injured in the crash, which shut down the I-635E on-ramp for two hours.