Fatal Weekend Wreck

NACOGDOCHES — One woman is dead and a mother and daughter are in the hospital after a two-vehicle head-on collision on Highway 7 near Nacogdoches County Road 641 Sunday afternoon. The accident happened at about 2:50 p.m. when an eastbound 2007 Ford Expedition driven by Teodora Ocon-Barraza, a 25-year-old day care teacher from Nacogdoches, crossed the center stripe and hit a westbound gray 2008 BMW, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety report. Barraza was pronounced dead at Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital at 4:15 p.m. Sunday. She had been wearing her seatbelt, a DPS spokeswoman said.

According to KETK, the driver of the BMW, 16-year-old Montgomery student Morgan Taylor McLeod, was listed in critical condition at the hospital with numerous broken bones and a ruptured spleen. She had also been wearing a seatbelt. Kerri Ann McLeod, 42, also of Montgomery, was listed in stable condition with a fractured ankle.