Wall Street in Gunter reopens after early Saturday crash near concrete plant

An accident near the concrete plant closed Wall Street in Gunter for about two hours and 40 minutes early Saturday, and no one was hurt, Gunter Volunteer Fire & Rescue said in a public post. The department reported that the closure took effect at 6:13 a.m. on July 25 and that the street reopened at 8:55 a.m.

The department's first notice placed the closure near the plant and said access to the Wall Street Road and AmeriTex area would be limited while the street was shut. It went out as the closure began, and the reopening update followed at 8:55 a.m. Neither post describes traffic conditions on any other Gunter street.

The description of an overturned concrete truck comes from KTEN. In a post datelined Gunter, Texas, the station reported that the morning commute for drivers heading through Gunter was interrupted, and it attributed the road closure to the overturned truck. The fire department calls the incident an accident without identifying the vehicle or giving a cause, and its posts name no responding agencies beyond the department itself. Both accounts place the disruption in Gunter on Saturday morning.

By the department's own timestamps, the road was blocked for two hours and 42 minutes.

For Cooke County readers, this was a neighboring-county event. Gunter is a Grayson County city, according to the city government's website, which puts Saturday's closure outside Cooke County.

State environmental records show the Wall Street Road area is tied to more than one concrete operation. A Texas Commission on Environmental Quality public notice says AmeriTex applied for authorization for two permanent concrete batch plants southeast of McDonald Road and Wall Street Road in Gunter.

Gunter has rules governing where heavy vehicles can travel. The city's truck-route ordinance generally restricts commercial motor vehicles over 26,000 pounds to designated truck routes, and it lists FM 121 and SH 289 among the state and federal highways the rule covers.

Those are the same two roads the Texas Department of Transportation classifies as principal arterials. The agency says drivers currently have to pass through Gunter to reach SH 289 from FM 121, and its project page describes the proposed Gunter Relief Route as a way to hold down future congestion and delay in town while easing safety problems. The fire department's posts do not connect Saturday's closure to the ordinance or to the proposed route.