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Wills Point woman dies in wreck when tire blows out on I-20

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VAN ZANDT COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - According to Texas DPS, a woman died following a one-vehicle wreck on the interstate Tuesday, Dec. 13. DPS said that at 8:30 a.m. on Interstate 20, about five miles west of Canton, Jennifer N. Aparicio, 27, of Wills Point was traveling westbound. She was driving a 2015 Freightliner box truck, OPS said. The preliminary investigation by DPS shows that the vehicle had a tire blow out and Aparicio lost control of the truck, ran off the road, and hit a tree. Justice of the Peace Herbert Dunn pronounced Aparicio deceased at the scene of the wreck.