Texas Department of Public Safety Sergeant Shana Clark and Trooper Calvin Starkie have confirmed that a motorcyclist died in a Beaumont hospital shortly after arrival. This is after a collision with a pickup truck that happened shortly after 10:00 Friday morning on Highway 96, approximately 3 miles north of Kirbyville.
Sergeant Clark later said that the motorcyclist, 31-year-old Jason Speegle, of Buna, was traveling southbound on a 2018 Suzuki when a 2017 Ford pickup truck, driven by Beverly Harrison, 71, of Kirbyville, pulled into the path of the motorcycle from County Road 482.
The motorcycle crashed into the rear passenger side door of the truck.
Speegle was loaded into a medical helicopter and flown from the scene to St Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont hospital where he succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead by Justice of the Peace Ben Collins.
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