Cobe Hyles, 17, killed after crashing into tree, ejected from car

JOHNSON COUNTY (CBSNewsTexas) - Seventeen-year-old Cobe Austin Hyles of Grandview died after he drove into a tree and was ejected from his car.

It happened on April 23 as Hyles was traveling east of FM-916. The roads were slick, and Hyles was driving too fast to negotiate a curve on the wet roadway, according to Trooper Nicholas Cantu, Johnson County DPS.

The investigation into the crash is ongoing. 

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• Deadly Crash
• Death
• Texas
• Parker County
• Tarrant County

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