No injuries in two-vehicle accident

A two-vehicle accident near Clarendon last week resulted in one citation but no injuries, according to Department of Public Safety Trooper Chad Simpson.

Stephanie Spillers, age 36, of Clarendon was eastbound on US 287 in a 2008 gray Chevy Malibu last Thursday evening, approaching the Clarendon College Livestock & Equine Center entrance. Simpson said Spillers was in the outside lane preparing to turn into the LEC.

Twenty-year-old Bradley Riggs of Memphis approached Spillers from behind in a white Chevy Impala and realized that Spillers was turning. He attempted to steer left to avoid collision but struck Spillers in the left rear corner.

Spillers’ car traveled into the south ditch and then back across the eastbound lanes of US 287 into the center median where it came to rest. Riggs’ vehicle began going sideways, rolled onto its top, and then slid on its top before coming to rest near the south shoulder.
Simpson said both Spillers and Riggs were wearing seatbelts, and neither one was injured. Riggs was issued a citation for failure to control speed.

Responding to this accident were the DPS, the Donley County Sheriff’s Office, the Texas Department of Transportation, the Associated Ambulance Authority, and the Clarendon Volunteer Fire Department.