WARD COUNTY, Texas — A Kermit man is now dead after a two-vehicle crash in Ward County.
According to a preliminary crash report from Texas DPS, 32-year-old Benjamin Ray Vasquez was driving westbound on Business Interstate 20 early Wednesday morning.
38-year-old Ryan John Halasz was driving eastbound on Business Interstate 20, approaching Vasquez.
Vasquez failed to drive in a single lane, according to the report, and drove onto the north barrow ditch. He then took faulty evasive action to the left, causing Vasquez to side skid into the eastbound lane, getting hit by Halasz.
Vasquez was pronounced dead at the scene.
