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Troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety are investigating a single-vehicle crash that left one man dead Friday night in the San Benito area.
The crash occurred around 9:03 p.m. Friday on Green Valley Farms Street and Crab Hole Lane in San Benito, according to a DPS news release.
During the investigation, authorities found that a Mercedes occupied by one male driver, later identified as 30-year-old Eriberto Montanez, a resident of San Benito, was traveling southbound at a “high rate of speed on Green Valley Farms Street,” stated the release.
Montanez veered off the roadway crashing into a ditch before his vehicle became “fully engulfed in flames,” according to the release.
Although a person, who authorities described as a good Samaritan, at the scene was able to get Montanez out of his vehicle, he died at the scene due to his injuries.
This remains an ongoing investigation.
