Details Released on a Fatal Area Accident
Posted/updated on: March 5, 2019 at 1:00 pm
TATUM – A Rusk county teenager, who was not wearing his seat belt, was killed in a weekend accident. Killed was a Tatum High School senior, Hector Eduardo Duran, 18. The Department of Public Safety report says his pickup was traveling north on County Road 2142 at a high rate of speed when the vehicle ran off the road and hit several trees. Duran, who was tossed from the vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident, which remains under investigation, happened shortly after 10:30 Saturday night five miles west of Tatum.
