One Dead In Upshur County Crash

State Troopers responded to a two-vehicle fatal crash Tuesday on US-271, seven miles north of Gilmer in Upshur County. Reportedly, the driver of a 1992 Chevrolet van, Johnny Allen Shrewsbury, 76, of Gilmer, was traveling south on US-271 when for an undetermined reason, the vehicle crossed over the double yellow line into oncoming traffic where it was struck by a northbound 2007 Freightliner truck-tractor and towed trailer, driven by Thomas Andrew Smith, 44, of Stella MO. Judge Manes pronounced Shrewsbury dead at the scene and he was transported to McWhorter Funeral Home in Gilmer. Smith was not noted in the report to have been injured.