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UPDATED - Three injured - including infant - when car struck a tree in Newton County

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Burkeville Fire Chief Charles Duckworth says two adults and one infant were injured when a car left a highway and crashed into a
tree on Monday afternoon. Duckworth said it occurred shortly before 3:00 on Highway 63, about one mile east of Burkeville. Texas Department of Public Safety Sergeant Shana Clark later said that the car, a 2020 Hyundai sedan, was traveling eastbound "at a speed which was unsafe for the wet and rainy weather conditions, which caused the passenger car to hydroplane into the north ditch,
where it struck multiple trees." Sergeant Clark said the car was driven by Jeremy Dutcher, 24, of Fort Polk, and the passengers were Hannah Bas, also 24, and a 2-month-old baby. They were all transported to Jasper Memorial Hospital for treatment. Clark said Dutcher received a citation for Unsafe Speed.