Another crash reported on perilous stretch of Highway 6

By Staff | Posted: Tue 6:07 AM, Dec 17, 2019 | Updated: Tue 10:11 AM, Dec 17, 2019

FALLS COUNTY, Texas (KWTX) Authorities responded to another crash Tuesday on a perilous stretch of State Highway 6 just south of Riesel that’s been the scene of a series of accidents including one in October that claimed the life of a Falls County sheriff’s deputy.

A witness said a motorcycle was lying on its side and that ambulances and helicopters were at the scene of the accident, but further details weren’t immediately available.

On Oct. 11, Falls County Deputy Matt Jones was killed helping a driver on the side of the road in the same area when a car hydroplaned and slammed into him and Riesel police Chief Danny Krumnow, who was gravely injured.

A KWTX review of state data found that since 2010, there have been 28 crashes involving a total of 53 people on the two-mile section of northbound State Highway 6 where Jones and Krumnow were struck.

Most of them occurred as drivers came out of the curve.

Three of the 28 were fatal and occurred in close proximity, including the one on Oct. 11 that claimed the deputy’s life.

In October the Texas Department of Transportation said it would conduct a traffic engineering study of the two-mile section of northbound State Highway 6.