MIDLAND COUNTY, TX — A 26-year-old San Angelo man died Tuesday morning in a crash involving a Freightliner on State Highway 158 and County Road 160, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
It happened around 6:40 a.m. when Christopher Aaron Vargas, driving a Ram 2500 westbound on SH 158, struck the rear of a Freightliner with a trailer. The Freightliner, driven by Jesus Daniel Mesa-Pena, 27, of Tomball, was traveling in the same lane ahead of Vargas.
Vargas was pronounced deceased at the scene. Mesa-Pena was not injured.
The crash remains under investigation, and no further information is available at this time.
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