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Melanie Rebecca Painter
United States · Aged 53 · Died 03/31/2021
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At approximately 6:45 p.m., a 2003 Mack truck tractor towing a pole trailer was traveling east on Highway 94. A 2017 marked DPS Chevrolet patrol other was traveling westbound. The DPS Trooper reportedly identified a traffic violation on another eastbound other and made a U-turn. As the patrol other was re-entering the eastbound lane, the driver of the Mack drove over into the westbound lane and struck a 2019 Jeep Wrangler head-on. The truck tractor semi-trailer then crossed back over the eastbound lane and struck the back right side of the DPS other and continued off the roadway and overturned onto its passenger side and caught on fire. The driver of the truck was not injured during the crash. Trooper Brady Germeroth, 37, was not injured. The driver of the Jeep Wrangler, Melanie Painter, 53, was killed.
Alleged responsible partyTexas Department of Public SafetyReported by the cited sources. “Alleged” is used pending verification.
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