LEON COUNTY, Texas (KBTX) - The Texas Department of Public Safety has identified the driver of a car killed Monday in a crash involving a dump truck near the city of Jewett.

The wreck occurred just after 4:00 p.m. on FM 39 north of US 79.

Troopers say Summer Martelli, 65, of Marquez, was driving northbound on FM 39 in a 2021 Mitsubishi Mirage when she veered into the southbound lanes and sideswiped a dump truck.

The impact caused Martelli’s car to leave the roadway and roll several times into a ditch. Troopers say she died at the scene.

The dump truck also left the roadway and came to a stop in a field, but the driver wasn’t injured.

A fundraising page for Martelli’s family says she was a mother of one, grandmother of 3, and was a fond lover of animals.

“She would take any stray an

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