Deputies, troopers, firefighters, and motorists all worked together on Monday afternoon to put out an approximately half-mile long stretch of roadside fires, and it was all caused by a woman driving on a flat tire. It happened at about 1:30 on U.S. Highway 96, between Evadale and Buna.
911 dispatchers began receiving calls reporting a woman driving a 2016 Nissan car northbound with a flat front passenger side tire and the vehicle was throwing sparks and flaming pieces of rubber onto roadside grass, setting it on fire.
A Jasper County deputy located the woman after her vehicle ran into a ditch next to the highway.
Sergeant Shana Clark of the Texas Department of Public Safety said that 42-year-old Christy Keith, of Buna, was issued a citation by a trooper for Operating a Vehicle in an Unsafe Manner.
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