WHEELER COUNTY, Texas – A 26-year-old truck driver from Regina has died in a four semi pile-up on the U. S. Interstate 40 Highway in Texas Sunday morning.
ABC News reported that the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) say that the westbound lanes of I-40 were closed because of a truck towing a trailer, which had jack-knifed. Traffic was backed up for about three-quarters of a mile.
Parampreet Singh Deol was driving an 18-wheeler and didn't see the backup of traffic in time and crashed into the back of another semi towing a trailer. This caused a chain reaction with four semi-trucks involved in the pile-up.
The collision occurred at about 8:15 a.m. Nov. 12, about four miles east of Shamrock in Wheeler County, Texas.
Deol was pronounced deceased at the scene and his passenger, 23-year-old Sukhmandeep Singh Sidhu, was taken to Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo with serious injuries. Two other semi drivers were taken to the hospital.
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