Fatal Semi Pile Up Near Shamrock, TX

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November 13, 2023

A man is dead and several others are injured after a crash in Wheeler County, Texas Sunday morning.

The Texas Department of Public Safety says it happened Sunday morning around 8:15 a.m. on Interstate 40, four miles east of Shamrock.

Preliminary investigation shows that westbound lanes were blocked and closed by a crash of a pickup towing a trailer that jack-knifed.

DPS says there was a line of traffic for almost a mile because of this crash.

26-year-old Parampreet Singh Deol of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada who was driving a semi, failed to control speed and hit another semi from behind, which caused a chain reaction, with four semi trucks involved in the pile up.

DPS says Deol was pronounced dead on the scene and a passenger in the sleeper cab was also ‘seriously injured’ during the crash.

The drivers of the other three semi trucks all received minor to moderate injuries as a result of the crash, according to DPS.

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