TAYLOR COUNTY, Texas — A Merkel woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon on Interstate 20, four miles west of Tye.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said in a preliminary crash report Mackenzie Lian Utley, 38, of Merkel, was traveling east on Interstate 20 in a pickup truck. Utley failed to maintain a single lane, DPS said, drifting off the north side of the road into the center median.
The pickup truck then hit a guardrail in the center median.
Utley was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash by Justice of the Peace Bob Jones.
