Teacher/Coach Killed in Accident

VAN ZANDT COUNTY — A Wills Point teacher and coach has been killed in an accident. KETK names the victim as 38-year-old William Robert-Dwain Brown of Forney, who was an assistant baseball and football coach along with his teaching duties. The DPS reports that troopers responded to the one-vehicle fatal crash around 9:10 Saturday night on Van Zandt CR 3501, two miles west of Wills Point.

Preliminary investigation shows Brown was traveling north on VZCR 3523 where it then merged into VZCR 3501 in a curve in the road. Officials say due to unsafe speed, Brown failed to negotiate the curve and entered into a side skid, leaving the north side of the road, and continued to travel in a side skid in the grassy area where his vehicle struck a tree, causing damage to its left side. After striking the first tree, it was propelled into another tree and barbed wire fence, causing damage to its front. The vehicle came to rest facing north in the grassy area north of the roadway. Brown was transported to Hunt Regional Emergency Medical Center in Quinlan where he was pronounced dead.