Whitesboro fire post describes "major accident" on eastbound U.S. 82 at La Hacienda

_By GvilleTX Newsroom_

Whitesboro Fire and EMS crews worked what the department called a "major accident" on eastbound U.S. 82 at La Hacienda, according to a post on the Whitesboro Fire Department's Facebook page. That post is the only public account of the response reviewed for this report, and it does not establish the date of the call.

The department wrote that "Whitesboro Fire and EMS are working a major accident on eastbound 82 at La Hacienda." The post is a first-party account from a responding agency.

That "major accident" wording belongs to the fire department rather than to an official crash classification. No public record reviewed for this report applies the label to a specific incident date.

TxDOT says a crash involving injury or reportable damage produces a report submitted to the agency within 10 days, and that crash reports are not publicly viewable online. No driver or vehicle is named here, and no injury information appears here, because no public record reviewed for this report supplies those details.

Whitesboro is in Grayson County, which borders Cooke County along U.S. 82. Planners there have examined the highway before. The Grayson County Safety and Operations Strategic Plan identified U.S. 82 at U.S. 377 in Whitesboro as a high crash-density location, and it noted further crash concentrations along U.S. 82 between Whitesboro and SH 289.

Pedestrians appear in the same document. The plan reported three fatal pedestrian crashes along U.S. 82 east of Whitesboro, on the segment between FM 901 and Miller Road. It reported two pedestrian crashes with serious injuries east of Whitesboro, between U.S. 377 and Rogers Road. Those findings describe crash patterns along the corridor and do not refer to any single response.

TxDOT has treated the route as one corridor. The agency's U.S. 82 corridor study covers the full Texas run of the highway, from New Mexico to Arkansas, and it sorts candidate improvements into short-, medium- and long-term work on safety, connectivity and mobility.

TxDOT is also studying a possible U.S. 82 relief route around Gainesville in Cooke County. The feasibility study covers the segment from FM 2739 to Interstate 35 and the segment from I-35 to the Grayson County line. The agency describes the purpose as improved mobility, safety and accessibility around Gainesville.

GvilleTX will update this report if Whitesboro Fire and EMS, a law enforcement agency or TxDOT releases a record that establishes the date of the call and any injuries.