Texas Lacy Reynolds Car Accident Linked To Her Death, Kaitlyn Byrum Died In Same Incident

  • Lacy Reynolds and Kaitlyn Byrum were in a car accident on March 23, 2021
  • They were stuck by an SUV driven by 37-year-old Joe Worry
  • Lacy Reynolds died on the scene, and Kaitlyn Byrum died a week later
  • There was a second accident immediately following theirs.

On Tuesday evening in March 2021, two teenagers were involved in a car crash in San Augustine County.

Cousins Lacy Reynolds and Kaitlyn Byrum were on their way to watch a high school baseball game in Chireno when they failed to stop at a stop sign failed to stop and a stop sign on Highway 103 and drove into the path of a 2008 GMC SUV that was eastbound on the same highway.

Reynolds was driving her 2016 Kia passenger car, which was utterly totaled during the crash. According to Sergeant Hendry of the Texas Department of Public Safety in Lufkin, the accident happened shortly before 6:00.

37-year-old Joe Worry was identified as the driver of the SUV who was transported to the Lufkin hospital for treatment as soon as the ambulance arrived. Thankfully, he survived.

Unfortunately, as emergency crews were working on the initial accident, a second accident occurred, and this time, it involved an 18-wheeler. The driver of the 18-wheeler, a Freightliner truck-tractor semi-trailer, was traveling eastbound on Highway 103 very fast. When he saw the accident scene, he could not stop, so he tried to take evasive action to the right, but instead of evading the scene, he struck a parked Chevrolet pickup truck, parked on the right side of the roadway.

Thankfully no one died or was injured in the second crash.

Lacy Reynolds Car Accident Linked To Her Death

The driver, Lacy Reynolds, died instantly in the car accident before the emergency services could arrive at the scene.

Reynolds was born on August 7, 2002, to Tony and Chrissy Reynolds in Lufkin, Texas, and was 18 years old when she passed. She had two siblings, brother Tyler and sister Gabby.

Reynolds also had a boyfriend, Jordan James, at the time of her death. Everyone who knew her described Reynolds as a sweet and lovely girl who spent her young life playing sports and cheering for the Colmesneil Bulldogs. Her boyfriend, Jordan, was a player on the team.

Reynolds especially loved to play volleyball, and her spikes are remembered fondly for dominating the court. She was also an accomplished gymnast, which helped her immensely in her cheerleading career.

Reynolds was devoutly religious, and one of her parents’ most cherished memory of hers is a beautiful testimony she wrote for the Lord. Her family remembers her last days with her looking bright and happy as she had graduated high school and has even been the homecoming queen. Reynolds was all set to attend Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, for business when she passed.

Her funeral services were held on March 27, 2021, at First Baptist Church Colmesneil.

Kaitlyn Byrum Died In Same Incident

Kaitlyn Byrum was in the passenger seat when the accident occurred and was still alive when the authorities arrived at the scene.

When the authorities discovered she was still alive, Byrum was taken to a Tyler hospital by a medical helicopter. She was in the emergency room for almost a week but was unfortunately pronounced dead despite the doctors’ best efforts.

Byrum was born on January 22, 2004, to Jennifer Byrum. She had two sisters and a brother: Leah, Taryn, and Tanner, respectively. Byrum was 17 at the time of her death.

The Byrums were lifelong residents of Colmesneil, Texas, and young Kaitlyn was a very involved member of her high school, where she played on the volleyball, basketball, tennis, and track teams. A natural athlete, Kaitlyn excelled in every sport she tried her hands on.

Besides sports, she was also on the yearbook staff and served as an editor for two years until her untimely death. Her family stated that Kaitlyn loved traveling and taking annual family trips.

One memory that her family especially cherishes of young Byrum is her drinking Dr. Pepper and eating snack cakes with her grandmother.

Byrum’s funeral services were held on Monday, April 5, 2021, at First Baptist Church of Colmesneil, the same as Lacy Reynolds.

Lacy Reynolds And Kaitlyn Byrum’s Family Petition To Improve Intersection

Following the passing of Lacy Reynolds and Kaitlyn Byrum, their distraught families petitioned to improve the intersection where their accident occurred.

Reynolds’ mother, Chrissy, spoke to KJAS News and explained that the reason for their accident was a blind hill on Highway 103. She continued that if a driver stops at the stop sign there, they won’t be able to see incoming eastbound traffic on Highway 103, which is exactly what happened to her daughter and niece.

This blind hill is also the reason for the second accident that occurred that day. Chrissy Reynolds has gathered statistics from the Texas Department of Transportation and learned that 43 accidents occurred at that intersection in the last decade, eight of them occurring in 2021.

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