Deadly two-vehicle crash on Highway 30 kills one person

(KBTX)
Published: Dec. 11, 2018 at 9:00 AM CST

Authorities have released the name of the driver killed in a morning collision. Highway 30 in Grimes County. It happened around 8:30 Tuesday morning.

According to a spokesman with the Department of Public Safety, Amanda Irish, 20, died on scene following that crash near County Road 190.

Investigators believe she was trying to pass in a no-passing zone when her car crashed into a pickup truck hauling a goose-neck trailer.

The other driver was taken to CHI St. Joseph in Bryan with non-life threatening injuries.

Highway 30 near the crash was shut down for several hours while DPS continued its investigation.