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EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A 65-year-old woman from Fort Worth who is being identified as a founding member of The Dixie Chicks was killed and another person was hurt in a head-on collision Friday night, Dec. 22 along U.S. Highway 62 in Hudspeth County.
The woman was identified as Laura Caroline Lynch by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The New York Post and CBS Network are both reporting that Lynch was a founding member of The Dixie Chicks musical group and was the woman who was killed in the crash outside of El Paso on Friday night. TMZ is also reporting Lynch, a founding member of the band, was killed in the crash.
Lynch was a member of the band, which has since been renamed The Chicks, from 1990 until 1993. The group consisting of Lynch released three albums before Lynch’s departure. The band would become global superstars with the release of 1998’s “Wide Open Spaces,” which only featured the three remaining members of the group: Emily Strayer, Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines.
The crash happened at about 5:45 p.m. about 25 miles west of Dell City and about 8 miles west of Cornudas, according to DPS.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, a pickup truck was traveling westbound on U.S. 62 when the driver tried to pass another vehicle along a two-way undivided portion of the highway. That truck collided head-on with a pickup truck driven by Laura Caroline Lynch, 65, of Fort Worth.
Lynch was pronounced dead at the scene. The other driver’s vehicle caught fire and that person was taken to an El Paso hospital with what were called non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the first vehicle was not identified by DPS.
The crash closed down the highway until about 1 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 23.
The crash remains under investigation and no other details are immediately available.
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