DPS investigating fatality wreck
Alexandria Randolph/Highland Lakes Newspapers
The black 2011 Ford Fiesta that Carole Lay was driving suffered severe damage in the collision that took her life on Friday, July 8.
BY ALEXANDRIA RANDOLPH/HIGHLAND LAKES NEWSPAPERS
Texas DPS is still investigating the cause of a wreck that claimed the life of a Marble Falls woman on Friday morning on US 281.
Carole Lay, a 67-year-old woman of Marble Falls, was found dead at the scene of a two-vehicle wreck at the intersection of US 281 and Farm to Market Road 1855 on Friday, July 8 at about 11:40 a.m.
Texas DPS Trooper Andrew Thomas said authorities aren't yet sure what caused the wreck.
“Witnesses said she came off FM 1855, stopped at the stop sign, and pulled right out in front of a the truck,” he said.
The pickup truck in question was a beige 1993 Chevy 2500 driven by Burnet resident David Flinn, 31.
“He was traveling in the outside lane, heading to Walmart where he worked. He saw her and locked his brakes up,” Thomas said. “She stopped in the outside lane. He swerved to the left to try to miss her, but she started moving forward again.”
The Chevy struck Lay's black 2011 Ford Fiesta on the driver's side door, propelling the vehicle 200 feet south, where it came to rest facing west. The pickup spun and came to rest in the inside, southbound lane facing east.
For more on the story, see Tuesday's Highlander.
