The Allen Police Department is investigating a fatal crash that occurred early Sunday morning on southbound US 75, just south of the Bethany Drive overpass.
At approximately 6:55 a.m., officers responded to a major crash involving a vehicle and an 18-wheeler. Preliminary findings indicate the vehicle left its lane of travel and struck the rear of the tractor-trailer combination, which was temporally stopped on the right shoulder with its emergency hazard lights activated.
Allen Police and Allen Fire Department personnel arrived on scene and located the driver of the vehicle unresponsive and trapped inside the vehicle. The driver was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Collin County Medical Examiner…