Fatal Gregg County Wreck

LONGVIEW – One person has been killed and one injured in a one vehicle accident in Gregg County. It was reported just before 3:00 Tuesday afternoon on U.S. Highway 259, five miles north of Longview. Dead at the scene was Taneithia Roshekia Scott, 35, of Idabel, Oklahoma. Her passenger, John Alfred Smith, 49, also of Idabel, is in critical condition at Longview Regional Hospital. The Department of Public Safety says their car was south bound when it drove off the road and into a ditch on the west side of the road. The car continued through the ditch and hit a concrete culvert and vaulted into the air. When the vehicle came down it began to roll, ejecting both persons from the vehicle. Both were not wearing their seat belts.