Two Die in Upshur County Crash
Posted/updated on: February 16, 2011 at 2:33 am
GILMER – Two Gilmer residents have died in a motorcycle accident near the Upshur County line on Farm Road 1795. Carl Walthall, 38, and Misty Lay, 36, died in hospitals in Tyler and Gilmer a few hours after the late Sunday afternoon accident.
According to the Department of Public Safety, the victims’ motorcycle was traveling with another motorcycle. When a car drove between the two cycles, the victim’s cycle drove around the car to catch up with the other motorcycle. It was then he lost control of the cycle, it went into a skid and then rolled over.
