Tractor-trailer crashes into vehicle being towed

Samuel Cardenas of Edna was driving a 2013 International tractor-trailer that was pulling a tank trailer southbound on U.S. Highway 59 at Farm-to-Market 522 when he struck a vehicle being towed by a 2002 Ford pick-up truck driven by Daniel Rodriguez of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico at 4:53 a.m. on Sept. 25.

Department of Public Safety Trooper Gerald Bryant said Rodriguez was towing two vehicles when the accident occurred. He said Cardenas was issued a citation for failure to control speed. Cardenas was driving a tractor-trailer for Enterprise Transportation Trucking Company.