Mona Nesbitt Killed in Gonzales County Collision on Interstate 10
Mona Nesbitt, 3 Others Killed in Interstate 10 Crash near Waelder in Gonzales County
Gonzales County, Texas (July 7, 2022) – Mona Nesbitt, 62, of Lubbock, was one of the four people killed Wednesday morning in a multi-vehicle crash in Gonzales County.
The collision, which involved three truck-tractors with semi-trailers and three passenger vehicles, happened at around 11:22 a.m. Wednesday, July 6, on Interstate 10 near Waelder.
Wade Stagle, 57, of Remer, Minnesota, was driving a 2021 Volvo truck-tractor hauling a semi-trailer eastbound on Interstate 10 in the right lane when he failed to slow down near a construction area and hit a 2020 BMW driven by Nesbitt.
The Volvo truck-tractor then hit several other vehicles.
Stagle and his passenger, Christy Hoffer, 46, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, died at the scene. Nesbitt and one of two passengers in the BMW, only identified as an 11-year-old girl, were also pronounced dead at the scene.
A boy in the BMW was airlifted to a San Antonio hospital with serious injuries.
No other details were given.
The crash remains under investigation.
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