Update: Gainesville Car Wreck Killed Two

A Fort Worth man and his teen-age grandson died from injuries they received Sunday in a multi-vehicle wreck near Gainesville.

The victims were Gervious Hinkle, age unavailable, and his 13-year-old grandson, Casey Ishak, also of Fort Worth, said Trooper Mark Tackett, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety highway patrol.

They were northbound on Interstate 35 about 2:30 p.m. Sunday in a 1996 Ford Explorer when they encountered a traffic delay from road construction in the area, Tackett said.

When they were about six miles south of Gainesville, a tractor-trailer driven by Randy Crume of Harrah, Okla., approached the slow-moving northbound traffic, Tackett said.

"Traffic was backed up and flowing slowly due to construction," Tackett said. "Crume failed to control speed and struck the rear of the stopped traffic."

The impact caused "multiple collisions," Tackett said.

Eight vehicles and the tractor-trailer, a 2006 International, were damaged in the chain-reaction wreck.

Hinkle was killed, and his grandson was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. The boy was pronounced dead at 3:39 p.m. in the JPS emergency room, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office.

Another person in the Ford Explorer was in critical condition following the wreck, Tackett said. That person's name was not immediately available.

No charges were filed by Monday morning, but Tackett said troopers were still investigating the wreck.

This was the second time in recent weeks that North Texans were killed in a chain-reaction wreck involving a big rig.

A family of three from Frisco and a relative were among 10 people fatally hurt June 26 in a pileup on Interstate 44 near Miami in far northeast Oklahoma.

Killed were Randall Hayes, 38, and his 7-year-old son, Ethan. Hayes' wife, Shelby Hayes, 35, died two days later at a hospital in Missouri. Her mother, Cynthia Olson, 55, of Crossroads in Denton County, also died in the crash.

A tractor-trailer slammed into cars that had stopped on the highway because of a previous accident, according to reports.