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Two dead in a crash in the Bleakwood Community

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Emergency crews in Newton County were busy Friday afternoon dealing with a crash that left two people dead in the Bleakwood Community. It happened shortly before 4:00 on Farm to Market Road 363 east of Highway 87. According to Texas Department of Public Safety Sergeant Shana Clark, 65-year-old Sherrill Reese, of Newton, was driving a Ford F-250 pickup truck eastbound on FM 363 when the truck went off the highway and overturned multiple times. Reese and a passenger, 37-year-old Vyazma Todd, also of Newton, were both pronounced dead at the scene by Justice of the Peace Connie Smith.

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