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The Texas Department of Public Safety says a deadly single-vehicle crash went undiscovered for about eight hours in Orange County on Tuesday morning. According to DPS Lieutenant Chuck Havard, the accident occurred at approximately 3:oo a.m. on Farm to Market Road 1136, also known as Old Buna Road, near Mauriceville, but it wasn't discovered and reported until shortly before 11:0o a.m. Havard said Tyler Michael Johnson, 31, of Orange, was driving a 2016 Dodge pickup truck northbound when he took a curve at an unsafe speed, which resulted in the vehicle crashing through ditches on both sides of the highway before ultimately landing in a wooded area where the truck flipped over and struck trees. Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene.