Two-Vehicle Fatal Crash

On October 2, 2020, Troopers responded to a two-vehicle crash on FM-31, approximately four miles south of Marshall in Harrison County. The driver of a 2020 Chevrolet 2500, Roger Lee Beard, 75, of Mt. Enterprise, traveling west on FM 2625, stopped at the intersection of FM-31. Simultaneously, a 2007 International truck-tractor towing a semi-trailer driven by Steven Craig Braswell, 44, of Arp was traveling south on FM-31. The Chevrolet driver failed to yield the right of way from the stop sign, pulled out into the path of the truck-tractor. The impact caused the truck to jackknife into the southbound ditch, which struck a light pole and caught fire.

Beard suffered non-incapacitating injures as a result of the crash.

Braswell was transported to LSU Medical Center in critical condition and passed two days later.