Two drivers were pronounced dead early Friday in San Marcos in connection to a tragic combination of actions that started when a tire blew out on a truck carrying a load of gravel that was in the northbound lane of Interstate- 35 near the McCarty Lane interchange.
In a press release issued by the city of San Marcos, at approximately 8 a.m., a tandem axel dump truck was traveling northbound on I-35 near McCarty Lane when one of the truck’s tires blew out. According to the preliminary investigation now underway by the San Marcos Police Department, officers said the dump truck crossed three lanes of traffic, colliding with the center median wall.
Police said the impact of the collision caused “the truck’s gravel load to spill into the southbound lanes.” The gravel from the dump truck fell into the path and onto a second vehicle traveling in the southbound lane on the highway, police said.
