A woman from Orange is dead following an early Monday morning auto accident in nearby Newton County.
Troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety say the accident occurred shortly after 7:00 on Highway 62, not far from the Orange County line, when a 2012 Ford pick-up truck, which was southbound, for some unknown reason, crossed over the centerline of the highway and collided with a 2017 Ford Sport Utility Vehicle.
The driver of the SUV, 53-year-old Stephanie Gillespie, was pronounced dead at the scene by a Newton County Justice of the Peace. The driver of the pick-up truck, Daniel Burge, 20, of Call was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont, where he was at last word still undergoing treatment.
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