Victim Named in Fatal Smith County Wreck

TYLER – One person has been killed and one injured in a two vehicle accident north of Tyler. The accident occurred on U.S. Highway 271 just north of Interstate Highway 20. Dead at the scene was Gregory Keith Whitmill, 39 of Tyler. The Department of Public Safety says he was killed when his van ran a red light and hit an international truck hauling gas tanks as it was making a left turn from the interstate’s frontage road onto Highway 271. The truck’s driver, Paul David Walker, 36, of Tyler, is in stable condition at a Tyler hospital.