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Published Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:05 AM

Fiery truck crash kills Gatesville man

By APRIL AVISON
Eagle Staff Writer

Three tractor-trailers and a pickup collided in Robertson County on Tuesday afternoon, killing one driver and hospitalizing two others.

Bobby Cox of Gatesville was identified late Tuesday as the man who died in the fiery crash on Texas 6 north of Texas 14 in Calvert.

Ronnie Bernard, 38, who was driving one of the tractor-trailers, was taken to Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple with severe burns. Department of Public Safety troopers said Tuesday they weren't sure where Bernard is from.

Houston resident Alejandro Trejo, 37, who was behind the wheel of a Ford pickup, was taken to Parkland hospital in Dallas, also with severe burns, according to authorities.

A fourth driver, 58-year-old Harold Croft of Dallas, was not injured.

DPS Trooper Ed Carmon said the vehicle Bernard was driving was headed south on Texas 6 when it crossed to the other side of the road and sideswiped another tractor-trailer headed north, then slammed head-on into a third 18-wheeler. Trejo's pickup was behind the trucks going north, and he was unable to avoid the accident, Carmon said.

All the vehicles caught on fire, the trooper said.

"A witness said that one of the truck tractors, for some reason, was weaving back and forth," Carmon said. "Another witness said it looked like the guy had a blowout. Everything was burned, so we can't find out one way or the other."

Carmon said the accident, which occurred around 11 a.m., prompted authorities to detour traffic for almost seven hours.

"[The Texas Department of Transportation] had to clean the roadway and scrape all the damaged pavement and resurface the roadway," Carmon said.

• April Avison's e-mail address is april.avison@theeagle.com.

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Posted by: Local Yocal On: 6/11/2008

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My thoughts and prayers are with the survivors who are suffering from injuries - may they make a speedy recovery. Also my thoughts and prayers are with the family of the truck driver who was killed. What a horrible thing to happen!