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The Texas Department of Public Safety says a Grapeland man died and a woman is in very critical condition following a single-vehicle crash in Zavalla on Friday night. Troopers say shortly after 9:00, 79-year-old Earl Knockaert was driving a Chevrolet SUV westbound on State Highway 63 at State Highway 147. According to the DPS report, Knockaert “…was traveling at a speed which was unsafe around a curve and left the roadway to the right and overturned.” Knockaert was transported to CHI St. Luke’s Hospital in Lufkin where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. The passenger, 78-year-old Mary Knockaert, was transported to the same hospital, where she was at last word, still undergoing treatment.