Accident claims mother of five

Ashley Sharp

By Tracy R. Mesler

A 35-year-old Nocona woman died in a one-vehicle accident Thursday shortly after noon on U.S. Hwy. 82 in the Belknap Creek bottom.

DPS Sgt. and Public Information Officer Dan Beusing stated the preliminary investigation found the motorist “left the roadway after a severe steering meaneauver and struck trees head on at high speed.”

The driver and lone occupant of the vehicle was identified as Ashley Necole Sharp, 35, of Nocona.

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