A Huntington man was killed in a one-vehicle rollover wreck Sunday afternoon on Highway 103 east, approximately seven miles outside of Lufkin.
Numerous rescue workers spent nearly an hour-and-a-half working to free James Murle Risinger, 64, who was trapped inside the upside-down 2008 Chevrolet truck. (Risinger was not Jim Risinger, the former Angelina County commissioner.)
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Rescue workers attempt to free a man trapped in his truck after it rolled over in a one vehicle wreck on Highway 103 east. James Murle Risinger was taken to a hospital by a medical helicopter once workers freed him from the vehicle and later died at the hospital.
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"They're going to have to cut the truck all up to get him out," Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Joshua Senn said at the scene.
Officers from the Angelina County Sheriff's officers and DPS blocked the road on both sides of the wreck while rescue workers attempted to free the man from the crushed vehicle. Risinger, who had been driving east on Highway 103, left the roadway, overturned and struck a tree, according to the DPS report.
It was not known Sunday what might have caused Risinger to leave the roadway. An Oncor worker at the scene said Risinger hit the guywire that was wrapped around the light pole, causing his tire to tear and the truck to roll over. Guywire is the wire used to hold the poles up.
"It put all the lights out on this road," the worker said.
More than an hour after rescue units responded, workers pulled Risinger out of the truck and placed him on a stretcher. He was flown to the East Texas Medical Center in Tyler, where he later died. He was wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident, according to the DPS report.
