Posted: Jan 9, 2013 3:56 AM by Dave Froehlich
JIM WELLS COUNTY- One man is dead after a car accident just outside of Alice on Tuesday evening.
DPS troopers say just before 6:30, 62 year old Johnnie Wayne Martin was headed north on 359 between Alice and Orange Grove when he pulled onto the right shoulder of the road.
Martin went to make a u-turn, but was hit by another car coming up behind him.
Martin was thrown from the car and pronounced dead at the scene.
He wasn't wearing a seatbelt.
His three passengers were, and they suffered non-life threatening injuries.
The driver of the other car wasn't injured.
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