Direct deaths
2
Direct injuries
0
Property damage
—
Magnitude
48 EG
Area
Lamb
Event narrative (NOAA)
A man and a child were killed after the truck they were riding in collided with a tractor-trailer. The accident happened on U.S. 84 just west of County Road 85 in Sudan.||The tractor-trailer was traveling eastbound on U.S. 84 when troopers say wind caused the tractor-trailer to jackknife and obstruct the path of the truck. The truck and the tractor-trailer collided and both vehicles came to a rest in a ditch, according to a DPS news release.
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.