A UPS driver was killed Thursday morning when his delivery truck was struck by a train at a rural railroad crossing west of Greenville, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n
Dusty L. Soles, 24, of Celeste, died at the scene after failing to yield to the oncoming train just after 11:30 a.m. on County Road 1153, DPS said. He was driving a 2018 Freightliner box truck.<\/p>\n
Company mourns employee’s death<\/p>\n
UPS said it is mourning the loss of one of its drivers and is working with investigators to determine what led to the crash.<\/p>\n
“We are deeply saddened by the passing of one of our team members,” UPS spokesperson Jim Mayer said in a statement. “Our thoughts are with our driver’s family, friends, and colleagues during this difficult time.”<\/p>\n
Authorities probing crash <\/p>\n
The company said it is cooperating fully with authorities and is deferring additional questions to law enforcement.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing. No further details were immediately released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A UPS driver was killed Thursday morning when his delivery truck was struck by a train at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[430,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-18331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-north-texas","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-texas-headlines","11":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}