Texas Accident Victims - News You Can Use

Driver charged in death of five after high-speed crash

Charges were handed down today in a high-speed crash case from January that claimed the lives of five people and critically injured two others including the driver.  On January 10 a driver traveling at 117 miles per hour on State Highway 248 near Partridge Circle crashed into another car.

Due to the high rate of speed the driver of the other vehicle, Karla Sexton, 60, was not able to take evasive action and was critically injured in the crash.  Four people in the van Sexton was driving were killed: Curtis Edwards, 78, of Pinehurst; Donald Sexton, 60, of College Station; Lloyd Edwards, 83, of Selena OK and Catherine Edwards, 83, of Selena OK.

The driver, Brandon Ferguson of Magnolia, 22, was charged earlier this week with five counts of manslaughter and one count of aggravated assault by Montgomery County prosecutors.  Ferguson was given 24 hours to turn himself in.

Ferguson’s passenger, his girlfriend 18-year-old Kayla Pratorius of Magnolia, was also killed in the crash.

Ferguson turned himself in the next day to face the District Attorney Office’s six warrants against him.  Authorities waited until now to charge Ferguson as they were waiting for him to recover sufficiently from his own critical injuries.

After being booked into Montgomery County Jail Ferguson was released on bail.  If convicted Ferguson faces two to 20 years in prison or two to 10 years probation and a fine of up to $10,000 per count.

back to top