DPS: ‘Unsafe speed’ cited as a factor in fatal wreck on remote roadway near Burnet

FROM STAFF REPORTS

BURNET — Two people died after the pickup in which they were traveling left the roadway and landed in the water Dec. 7 just outside Burnet on CR 341, also known as Mormon Mill Road, according to a Department of Public Safety report.

The driver, Jerry Ross, 51, and the passenger, Elizabeth Nigrelli, 35, both of Bertram, were pronounced dead at the scene at 5:57 a.m.

The report stated authorities received a call about a 2008 Chevrolet pickup on its top in a creek about three miles southeast of Burnet.

Factors listed in the crash include the truck traveling at an “unsafe speed in a lefthand curve, going down a hill,” according to the DPS.

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