CALLAHAN COUNTY, TX. (THECOUNT) — Casey Dylan Rachal, of Natchitoches, has been identified as the victim in a fatal crash Thursday evening in Callahan County, Texas.
Rachal, 22, was operating a vehicle traveling on Interstate 20 approximately half a mile east of Abilene when a Freightliner towing a trailer slowed down and merged left as the right lane closed.
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Rachal was unable to control the speed of his 1993 Chevrolet pickup and collided with the rear portion of the travel trailer being towed by the seim-tractor, according to the report.
The crash report states that Rachal was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the violent crash.
The driver of the Freightliner, 62-year-old Marcus Clyde Humphrey, of Peoria, Ariz., was wearing a seatbelt and was not injured.
DPS says the crash is still under investigation, and that this information is from a preliminary report and may change, be corrected, or added based on the investigators’ findings, reports BigCountryHomepage.
Geo quick facts: Abilene is a city in Taylor and Jones counties in Texas, United States. The population was 117,463 at the 2010 census, making it the 27th-most populous city in the state of Texas. It is the principal city of the Abilene Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2017 estimated population of 170,219 – Wikipedia.