MARTIN COUNTY, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety has identified an Elmendorf, Texas man who was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Martin County on Christmas afternoon.
According to DPS, Carlos Fuentes Padilla, 69, was driving a 2010 Ford F-150 east on the I-20 south service road, while Olanrewaju Oyewo, 38, was exiting the interstate at ramp 155 in a Peterbilt tractor-trailer.
Padilla failed to yield the right of way at an intersection and crashed into the tractor-trailer.
Padilla was pronounced dead by the Justice of the Peace. Oyewo was not inured in the wreck.
