One Dead, One Critically Hurt in I-20 Wreck

SMITH COUNTY — One person has died and one critically injured following a wreck on Interstate Highway 20. Killed was Emma Owers, 74, of Hornbeck, Louisana. The DPS says the crash between a car and gas tanker truck occurred around 11:45am Thursday morning southeast of Van at mile marker 544. Owers was a passenger in a car driven by Sandra Krizen, 49, also from of Hornbeck. The DPS says their car hit the rear of the truck which had been stopped in traffic.