Garland police say one good Samaritan is dead and another was injured when a semi-truck loaded with ice cream crashed into them on LBJ Freeway Friday morning.
"Highways are treacherous," Garland Police Lt. Richard Maldonado said. "They're very dangerous."
Garland police say there was a rollover accident on westbound LBJ Freeway at Jupiter Road just after 1:30 a.m. Two vehicles stopped to help and good Samaritans were trying to keep traffic away from the rollover when an 18-wheeler tried to break and jackknifed, hitting the people who were blocking traffic.
One good Samaritan died. Police identified her as 35-year old Maria Trinidad Ortiz Gonzalez of Lewisville. The other good Samaritan, a 52-year-old unidentified man, was critically injured according to police.
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"Instinctively, the majority of people are helper. They want to help," Maldonado said. "It's human nature, and we're not casting any sort of blame on anybody. I want folks to understand that the highways are treacherous to begin with, and then you couple that with the fact that there was black ice that people weren't seeing. Those are just two things that when you combine them, are just gonna be bad."
Police say the driver of the semi-truck was taken to the hospital and released, the driver involved in the initial rollover crash was also treated and released.
The big rig was on its side and remained across all lanes of traffic until just before 11 a.m.
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