Staff Report
NewsWest 9
MIDLAND - New information on a fatal accident that happened on Saturday afternoon in Midland.
Police have released the name of the driver who was killed.
The accident happened on Lamesa Road near Loop 250 after 3 p.m.
Police identified 34-year-old Chakalia Jackson as the driver who died in the crash.
Officers say Jackson was heading northbound on Lamesa in a Chevy Lumina.
According to witnesses, the car was driving at a high rate of speed and was seen swerving all over the road.
We're told the car lost control, went into a side skid and then went into the southbound lane of Lamesa.
The car was then hit by a Dodge truck.
Jackson was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two adults and five children in the truck were taken to the Midland Memorial, all with non-life threatening injuries.
Officials say Jackson was not wearing a seatbelt.
