TARRANT COUNTY, TX. (THECOUNT) — Christopher Ray Vardy, of Boyd, Texas, has been identified as one of the six people killed Thursday morning in a mass vehicle wreck in Tarrant County.
Chris Vardy, 49, a leader at First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth, was killed in a major accident on Interstate 35W involving more than 130 vehicles Thursday morning.
Vardy’s wife is Tamara Vardy, the superintendent of the Boyd school district. School officials said they would release a statement later in the day, according to Yahoo.
As the commute to work began just after 6 a.m. Thursday, ice on a half-mile section of I-35W thrust together sedans and pickup trucks and 18-wheelers, authorities said.
At least 133 vehicles were jumbled in the dark. Vardy was among six people killed, and 65 other people were injured.
Vardy worked as a program manager at InterConnect Wiring, a Fort Worth-based company that supplies military aerospace electrical products, according to a LinkedIn profile in his name.
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Geo quick facts: Tarrant County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2010, it had a population of 2,054,475. It is Texas’ third-most populous county and the 15th-most populous in the United States. Its county seat is Fort Worth – Wikipedia.
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