A 23-year-old Livingston man died in a one-vehicle wreck that occurred on Upper Leggett Road in Polk County early Saturday morning.
According to a press release, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers responded to and investigated the crash, which occurred about three miles northeast of Leggett at approximately 1:25 a.m. Saturday.
The preliminary crash report shows that Tarius Martin, 21, of Livingston, was driving a 2016 Dodge pickup north on Upper Leggett Road when the crash occurred.
‘It is reported that the driver was traveling at an unsafe speed while attempting to negotiate a right-hand curve,” the press release stated. “The pickup left the roadway to the left, overturned, and struck a tree.”
