Fatal Rusk County Accident
Posted/updated on: July 9, 2010 at 2:38 amHENDERSON — A Smith County man has been killed and two persons injured in a two vehicle accident in Rusk County. The accident happened around 6:30 Tuesday morning on State Highway 64, just east of County Road 421. Dead at the scene was Juan Carlos Guiterrez-Leon, 24, of Tyler. Injured were the drivers of both vehicles, Jennifer Hibbard of Nacogdoches and Andres Blas-Luviano of Tyler. The Department of Public Safety report indicates Hibbard’s car was west bound on Highway 64 when veered into the east bound lane and hit Leon’s pickup head-on. Everyone in the two vehicles was wearing their seat belts.