One person died Wednesday afternoon after a vehicle rolled over and landed on its roof along Ranch Road 334 near the Uvalde-Kinney County line, according to the Uvalde Volunteer Fire Department. The road, which runs between Uvalde and Brackettville, was shut down for hours while crews worked the scene.
Firefighters were dispatched just before 4 p.m. following reports of injuries and someone trapped inside a vehicle, according to the Uvalde Volunteer Fire Department, as Yahoo News reported. When crews arrived, they found the vehicle overturned onto its roof with an unidentified person trapped inside, per KSAT.
That person was pronounced dead at the scene, KSAT reports. Ranch Road 334 was closed while emergency crews worked at the site, and the outlet notes that what led to the crash remains unclear.
Investigation Still in Early Stages
The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating the crash, though no additional details about a cause or contributing factors have been released. The identity of the person who died has not been made public, and KSAT says it has reached out to DPS for more information about the collision.
Fatal wrecks are not unheard of along the rural stretches connecting Uvalde and Kinney counties. In August, a Uvalde woman was killed in a separate two-vehicle crash in Kinney County, according to DPS, as reported by KSAT at the time. That case remains distinct from Wednesday's rollover, and no connection between the two incidents has been established.
For now, the scope of Wednesday's crash is limited to what the Uvalde Volunteer Fire Department and KSAT have confirmed: one fatality, a vehicle flipped onto its roof, and a stretch of Ranch Road 334 closed for an unspecified stretch of time while first responders worked. DPS has not released further findings, and no timeline for the investigation's conclusion has been given.
