Wreck Victims Transported to Hospitals

LUFKIN — All three victims from Tuesday afternoon�s collision on U.S. Highway 69 south outside of Huntington have been transported to hospitals in Tyler or Houston. The crash involved three vehicles, including a Huntington Independent School District bus and a Texas attorney general�s car. The front passenger in the government car, Danna Gordon, 53, was taken by medical helicopter from the scene of the accident to East Texas Medical Center in Tyler, a Level 1 trauma center, according to Department of Public Safety Trooper Joe Wood. Records from ETMC show she was treated and released from the hospital.

The back seat passenger, Dorothy Musick, 59, was initially taken to Memorial, but Wood said she was then driven by ambulance to ETMC. She is listed in critical condition in the ICU unit. The driver, Veronica Burns, 51, was initially taken to Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin and was later flown by medical helicopter to Houston, Wood said. Her condition was not available as of Wednesday afternoon.

After further investigation, Wood said the attorney general�s car had been stopped behind the school bus as it let off students. The green Cadillac, driven by Tonia Sue Pena, rear-ended the stopped vehicle and pushed it into the side of the school bus before deflecting into a field on the opposite side of the highway. Pena later went to the hospital complaining of chest pain from the inflated airbag and an injury to her knee. She was ticketed for not having a driver�s license and failure to control speed, Wood said. Only one child from the school received a bump to the head, according to HISD superintendent Eric Wright. Wood said everyone was wearing their seatbelts.