Limestone County, TX — September 16, 2024, 57-year-old Rebecca Ewart was injured in a single-vehicle accident on FM 1245 in Limestone County.
According to investigators, the incident happened shortly after 5 p.m. on Farm to Market Road 1245 near FM 1633. Preliminary reports say Ewart was driving a Jeep Wrangler southeast on the roadway when the Jeep traveled into the south barrow ditch for unknown reasons. Ewart allegedly over-corrected and the Jeep side-skidded back through the road into the north ditch. It then overturned and rolled before coming to rest on its side.
Responders extricated Ewart from the Jeep and transported her to an area hospital for treatment of serious injuries.
No further details are currently available.
Commentary by Attorney Michael Grossman
Preliminary reports don’t shed much light on what authorities have done or will do to investigate this crash, but I know from decades in this field that single-vehicle accidents rarely get the attention they deserve. Folks tend to write them off as driver mistakes without much thought, but that doesn’t account for how complex such a crash can actually be.
For example, a family contacted the firm not long ago about their loved one’s fatal accident. Authorities told them he didn’t wear his seat belt, but they didn’t buy that and wanted a second opinion. We contacted an accident reconstruction expert we knew would be thorough enough to satisfy the family, and had him look over the victim’s vehicle again. Through careful forensic testing, he learned that the seat belt’s pretensioner (the part that makes it snap tight in a collision) failed. Though the belt was buckled when he crashed, it didn’t perform its most critical function and the victim was ejected.
Am I saying anything of the sort happened in Limestone County? No. I am saying however that a crash victim has every right to want investigators to go beyond superficial efforts and find the whole story. Whether authorities plan to take such steps remains to be seen.
call us 
Email Us 
Text us