TX Teen Tyler Duke ID’d As Victim In Thursday Fatal Zavalla Head-On Crash Involving Patrol Car

ANGELINA COUNTY, TX. (THECOUNT) — Tyler Duke, of Lufkin, Texas, has been identified as the teenager killed in a head-on vehicle crash involving an Angelina County Sheriff’s Department marked patrol car late Thursday afternoon.

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, Duke, 17, died following a US-69 crash Thursday around 3 p.m., involving officer Stacy Seymore, 51, from Wells, Texas.

DPS responded to a report of a two vehicle crash Thursday afternoon on US-69, just north of Zavalla.

The preliminary investigation indicates at approximately 3 p.m., an Angelina County Sheriff’s Department marked patrol car was traveling south when a northbound 2009 Nissan passenger car attempted to pass another vehicle in a no passing zone and struck the patrol vehicle head-on off the west side of the roadway.

Duke, who was operating the Nissan, was pronounced dead at the scene of multiple blunt force trauma injuries.

Three additional passengers in the Nissan are identified as 20-year-old Charity Lawson from Orange, 16-year-old Faith Lawson, also from Orange and a one-year-old female, reports KRTE.

Charity Lawson was transported to a Conroe hospital by medical helicopter for treatment.

Faith Lawson was transported to CHI St. Luke’s Hospital and later transferred to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.

The one-year-old female passenger was properly secured in an appropriate child passenger safety seat system and was transported to CHI St. Luke’s Hospital for minor injuries.

Seymore was transported to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Beaumont by medical helicopter for treatment.

This investigation is ongoing.

No additional information was provided by officials.

Geo quick facts: Zavalla is a city in Angelina County, Texas, United States. The population was 713 at the 2010 census. The town is named for Lorenzo de Zavala, a Mexican rancher, politician, and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence who served as the first Vice-President of the Republic of Texas – Wikipedia.