A single vehicle crash in Cochran County roughly four miles south of Morton resulted in one dead on New Year’s Day.
According to a DPS report, just after 5pm a 2005 Chevrolet Trailblazer was traveling south on SH 214 when the vehicle veered into the west ditch.
The driver over corrected, losing control of the vehicle, which caused it to roll before coming to rest in the field west of the highway.
The driver, Graciela Marquez Chavez, 44 of Juarez, Mexico was pronounced dead on the scene by the Justice of the Peace.