BY JOYCE GODWIN
HERALD DEMOCRAT
Three vehicles were involved in wrecks around 5:40 a.m. Wednesday on State Highway 11. Two men died as a result of the collisions.
Edward Samis, 56, of Sherman and Robert Ping, 40, of Whitewright were both killed while trying to help one of the accident victims from her car.
Texas Highway Patrol Trooper Mark Tackett explained that a white Dodge pickup was traveling southbound and a green Nissan Maxima was headed north on S.H. 11. Tackett said the Nissan, driven by Margaret White, 49, of Sherman was trying to turn west onto F.M. 1417 when it was struck by the pickup driven by Javier Sanchez, 18 of Sherman. "When the vehicles collided, the Nissan was disabled in the roadway and both drivers were injured," Tackett said.
Three people stopped to help, and as they went to the Nissan to help White from of her car, Tackett said a red Ford F-150 pickup driven by a 68-year-old Sherman man was southbound on SH 11, and he "approached the crash scene and struck the Nissan and hit all three men, killing two and injuring one."
Lance Porter of Sherman was injured.
Tackett said everyone was transported to hospitals except the two who were killed.
Late in the afternoon, troopers were still trying to sort out to which hospital each individual was taken. He said two were taken before the Highway Patrol arrived at the scene. White was taken into surgery, he said, Wednesday morning, but her condition was unknown.