Three people were transported to Tyler Hospitals where they were treated and released after a three-vehicle crash north of Mineola just before 4 p.m. Thursday at Highway 69 north and Loop 564.

One of the passengers, 15-year-old Lindsey Kratzmeyer, was the passenger in a Cadillac driven by 17-year-old Mischel Moranville-Fry. Both girls were transported to Tyler hospitals, Moranville-Fry with no visible injuries but highly upset and Kratzmeyer with cuts to her face and neck. A Hemphill police officer, Michael Rogers was transported with incapacitating injuries. The driver of a third vehicle, a Ford F150 pickup, Forest Trexler, was uninjured. Rogers was being transported to Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler and the two girls to East Texas Medical Center Hospital in Tyler.

A man who came up on the accident almost immediately after it happened, Ricky Quiambao, said that when he first arrived Kratzmeyer was slumped over and unresponsive and Moranville-Fray was hysterical. He said that Kratzmeyer “kind of woke up” though he noted her she didn’t know what had happened or what day it was and had a glazed look in her eyes. She had cuts to her head and her chest and her face was covered in blood.

The accident was paged out at 3:50 p.m. and Mineola Fire Department and Police Department responded. Firefighters had to use the Jaws of Life to extricate Kratzmeyer from the front seat of the Cadillac. Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Stephen Nichols arrived and took over the investigation.

Nichols said that Moranville-Fry was headed south on the loop and failed to yield the right-of-way to a red light. The F150 that was going north clipped the back end of Cadillac and in turn that resulted in the Hemphill vehicle headed toward Mineola on 69 hitting the passenger side of the car broadside. The trooper said he would issue a citation for failure to yield the right-of-way to Moranville-Fry.

Moranville-Fry is the granddaughter of Charles and Linda Fry. They wondered how the accident had occurred and he said that she was normally always very cautious in her driving.