{"id":6344,"date":"2012-08-21T11:05:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T18:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2013-03-15T11:09:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:09:30","slug":"woman-killed-in-semi-truck-accident-on-state-highway-36-near-joneboro-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/6344\/woman-killed-in-semi-truck-accident-on-state-highway-36-near-joneboro-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Killed In Semi Truck Accident on State Highway 36 Near Jonesboro Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JONESBORO, Texas &#8212; A woman from Comanche County was killed on Tuesday, August 8, when the vehicle she was driving slammed into a semi truck and threw her from her car where she was then struck by a second 18-wheeler. The victim was identified as Carla Payne Wendeborn, 43, of Dublin.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6346\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6346\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6346\" title=\"jonesboro-tx-fatal-semi-truck-accident\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jonesboro-tx-fatal-semi-truck-accident.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jonesboro-tx-fatal-semi-truck-accident.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jonesboro-tx-fatal-semi-truck-accident-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jonesboro-tx-fatal-semi-truck-accident-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman was killed in a fatal semi truck accident just outside Jonesboro, TX on August 8, 2012. Texas cities nearby are Gatesville, Temple, Waco and Killeen. Photo credit: Paul J. Gately<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The accident occurred just before 5 p.m on State Highway 36 about two miles south of Jonesboro when the Kia Wendeborn was driving struck the driver\u2019s door of a semi truck in the northbound lane.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6348\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6348\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6348\" title=\"jonesboro-tx-fatal-semi-truck-accident-map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jonesboro-tx-fatal-semi-truck-accident-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jonesboro-tx-fatal-semi-truck-accident-map.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jonesboro-tx-fatal-semi-truck-accident-map-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jonesboro-tx-fatal-semi-truck-accident-map-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map showing location of fatal semi truck accident on August 8, 2012 on Texas Highway 36 at Coryell County Road 196 about 3.4 miles southeast of Jonesboro, TX and about 12.6 miles northwest of Gatesville, TX. Jonesboro is located about 220 miles northwest of Houston.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Department of Public Safety Trooper, Gary Stiles, told the media that the Kia then went under the semi-trailer and Wendeborn was ejected from her car and was run over by a second 18-wheeler that also was northbound.<\/p>\n<p>The Kia careened off the roadway on the southbound side and came to rest in a ditch, just a few feet north of Coryell County Road 196.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses who were at the scene of the accident later told Trooper Stiles that the Kia seemed to be driving erratically before the crash.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported at the time of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwtx.com\/home\/headlines\/Woman-Killed-In-Tuesday-Afternoon-Three-Vehicle-Wreck-On-Rural-Highway-165360426.html\" target=\"_blank\">KWTX.COM<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Posted by <a title=\"Houston truck accident lawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/Southeastern-Texas.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Houston truck accident lawyer<\/a> Gordon, Elias &amp; Seely, LLP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JONESBORO, Texas &#8212; A woman from Comanche County was killed on Tuesday, August 8, when the vehicle she was driving slammed into a semi truck and threw her from her car where she was then struck by a second 18-wheeler. The victim was identified as Carla Payne Wendeborn, 43, of Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-6344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas-truck-accidents","tag-houston-truck-accident-lawyers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7245,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions\/7245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}