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31-year-old Muleshoe woman killed in Bailey County crash
LLubbock

1 dead, 1 seriously injured in Motley County crash

  • January 13, 2026

MOTLEY COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) – A man is dead and a woman is injured after a crash along Highway 70 just south of Roaring Springs Sunday night.

The crash occurred about an hour northeast of Lubbock.

DPS reports 25-year-old Joclynne Clarkston-Smith of Seminole rear-ended a pickup truck. Troopers say the pickup was stopped in the middle of the highway with its lights turned off.

Clarkston-Smith was seriously hurt.

The driver of the pickup, 71-year-old Richard Piper of Roaring Springs, died at the hospital in Crosbyton.

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