Winter Weather in Potter, Texas

A thirty-seven year old man was killed in the morning hours in a vehicle accident which occurred at 0730 CST in the three hundred block of East St. Francis Avenue. The victim was killed when the vehicle he was driving was hit by a pickup truck. Two to three inches of snow along with blowing snow with winds of thirty-five miles per hour contributed to the accident.

Two to three inches of snow and windy conditions created areas of near zero visibilities in blowing snow...which resulted in a forty-two car accident on Interstate 40. The accident occurred in the eastbound lanes just west of Whitaker Road at 0542 CST. One person was killed and two people were injured. A sixty-five year-old Amarillo man was identified as the lone fatality. A fire truck from the Amarillo Fire Department became involved in the accident on Interstate 40 when it rolled over while approaching the accident and landed upside down. No one from the four member crew of the fire truck were injured. A thirty-seven year-old man was also killed in a separate accident in the three hundred block of East St. Francis Avenue at 0730 CST due to the poor weather conditions.