TYLER – At 8:29 this morning, State Troopers responded to a two vehicle fatal crash on Toll-49 south of Hwy-64 West in Smith County. The investigators preliminary report indicates that the driver of a 2018 Mazda CX5, Daisy Pineda, 28, of Lindale, was traveling south on Toll-49 at a speed that was unsafe for the roadway conditions. The driver lost control of the vehicle and traveled into the path of a north bound Dodge 2500 pick-up towing a trailer driven by Steven Joseph Worl, 69, of Whitehouse. The vehicles collided causing extensive damage to both.
Pineda was transported to Christus Trinity Mother Francis Hospital – Tyler in critical condition. A female 2 year-old child in the vehicle was transported to Christus Trinity Mother Francis Hospital – Tyler in serious condition. An 8 year-old female child was pronounced at the scene by Judge Andy Dunklin and was transported to Lighthouse Funeral Home in Tyler.
Worl was transported to UT-Health – Tyler in stable condition.
The crash remains under investigation.