Truck Driver Dies after Wreck

A Lubbock-area truck driver has died from injuries he received in an early-morning collision with another big rig on Interstate 20 in southwest Parker County.

Pascual Rincones Cisneros Jr., 57, of Lorenzo, which is northeast of Lubbock, died Thursday morning at a Fort Worth hospital, said Trooper Gary Rozzell, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety office in Mineral Wells.

The three-vehicle wreck was reported at 1:13 a.m. near mile marker 397, Rozzell said. The area is near the community of Brock and about six miles west of Weatherford.

A red passenger car driven by Lauren Vitale, 18, of Fort Worth was westbound on the service road of I-20, Rozzell said.

Meanwhile, he added, a 2002 Kenworth driven by Joshua Pottker, 31, also of Fort Worth, was westbound on the interstate.

Vitale drove onto the interstate, but not by taking the entrance ramp, Rozzell said.

Instead, she drove across the grassy area between the interstate and its service road, Rozzell said.

Pottker swerved to avoid the red car, but the car struck his right front tire, Rozzell said.

The Kenworth then entered the eastbound lanes, which put it in the path of the 2005 Freightliner driven by Cisneros, Rozzell said.

The Freightliner hit the trailer that was behind the Kenworth, Rozzell said.

"The Pottker vehicle turned on its side," Rozzell said, "but the Cisneros vehicle went through the trailer, cut it in two, and continued down Interstate 20, eastbound, for a short distance."

It came to rest, Rozzell said, "with massive front-end damage."

Pottker was taken to a Weatherford Regional Medical Center where he was treated and released, Rozzell said.

The red car spun out and came to a stop, but Vitale was unhurt, according to Rozzell.

He noted, however, that investigators did not immediately know why she entered I-20 by driving across the grass.

The investigation was continuing, Rozzell said