Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
A Clovis woman died in an early Sunday morning highway accident in Texas.
Texas Department of Public Safety Sergeant Johnny Bures reports Araceli Gonzalez-DeSaldivar, 47, of Clovis died when the 2009 Dodge Ram pickup truck she was driving crashed in a one-vehicle accident. A passenger in the vehicle, Ysmael Dominguez-Vazquez, 44, of Clovis was injured in the wreck.
Bures reports the accident happened Sunday at about 2:50 a.m. as DeSaldivar’s pickup was westbound on U.S. highway 60 a little over four miles northeast of Hereford in Deaf Smith County.
A DPS investigation indicated the pickup left the roadway and traveled into the center median. DeSaldivar apparently attempted to get back on the roadway but lost control of the vehicle. The pickup slid sideways back across the westbound lanes and off the north side of the highway where the vehicle rolled over multiple times.
The DPS report says “neither occupant was secured by a seat belt and as a result were ejected from the vehicle.
DeSaldivar was pronounced deceased on the scene of the accident by a Deaf Smith County acting Justice of the Peace.
Vazquez was transported to Amarillo Northwest Texas Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Bures reports the crash remains under investigation.
