Georgia Trucker Killed in East Texas Accident
Posted/updated on: January 16, 2012 at 3:52 pm
VAN ZANDT COUNTY — One person is killed in a one-vehicle accident Saturday in Van Zandt County. The DPS reports it happened around 9:30 p.m. on I-20 at the 516 mile marker. Authorities say the victim was 50-year-old Georgia resident Geral Lynn Pankey, a commercial truck driver. According to the DPS report, he was headed east driving a Freightliner Conventional towing a flatbed trailer when the vehicle traveled off the roadway and overturned. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
