Local girl rolls truck

A Clarendon girl remained hospitalized this week after she rolled her vehicle Sunday afternoon while using her cell phone.

Krista Reynolds, age 16, was in Lubbock’s University Medical Center in the pediatric ICU, her father, Steve Reynolds reported. She was texting and driving and not wearing her seat belt, he said.

DPS Trooper Chad Simpson said Reynolds was driving a 1998 Ford F-150 pickup and negotiating a curve on FM 2362 west of Clarendon when the right tires traveled off the roadway and into the south ditch. Reynolds overcorrected while steering to the left, went back onto the highway, and then over corrected to the right.

Simpson said the truck then slid sideways into the south ditch, rolled 2¾ times, and went through a fence before coming to rest on its right side in a pasture.
Reynolds was ejected from the vehicle as it rolled, Simpson said.

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

Mr. Reynolds said his daughter was suffering from a broken pelvis and fractured vertebrae, but the family was considering it fortunate that her injuries were not much worse.

Donations are being accepted at all Clarendon banks to help the family deal with travel and other expenses during Krista’s hospitalization in Lubbock.