RUNNELS COUNTY, Texas — Two Runnels County men died in a three-vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon on US Hwy 83, 4.5 miles south of Winters.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said in a preliminary crash report that a pickup truck, driven by Ronald Presley, 74, of Winters, was traveling north on US 83, south of Winters.
A car, driven by Jeffrey Lenk Stewart, 43, of Ballinger, was traveling south behind a semitruck driven by Michael Dewayne Lochmiller, 53, of Las Vegas, Nevada.
The report states that approximately 4.5 miles south of Winters, Presley's truck crossed the center stripe and hit the semitruck, then the car.
Presley and Stewart were pronounced dead at the scene. Neither had a seatbelt on at the time of the collision.
Stewart's three passengers were all taken to Shannon Medical Center with serious, incapacitating injuries. There was no information regarding Lochmiller's condition in the report.
