Two injured in accident Tuesday South of Buna

Two people from Kountze were injured in a one-vehicle accident on Tuesday.

The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating the one-vehicle crash that occurred on Business U.S. Highway 96, south of Buna, that occurred Tuesday, August 20th.

DPS Media Sergeant Shana Clark said that at approximately 3:05 p.m., a 2010 Dodge Ram pulling a homemade twenty-foot low-boy trailer was traveling west. For an unknown reason, the Dodge left the road, overturned, and struck a tree.   

The driver of the Dodge, identified as 44-year-old James Pirtle of Kountze, was transported to Christus Saint Elizabeth Hospital for treatment of possible non-life-threatening injuries. His passenger, identified as 31-year-old Sarah Thornton of Kountze, was also transported but she was taken to Jasper Memorial Hospital for treatment of possible non-life-threatening injuries.