Texas teen dies after Jeep-pulled sled strikes curb and tree during severe winter storm

A teenage miss was killed and different critically injured successful a sledding mishap involving a Jeep successful Texas, authorities said.

Police and firefighters responded conscionable earlier 3 p.m. Sunday to a telephone astir a sledding mishap connected a residential street, the Frisco Police Department said.

Two 16-year-old girls were recovered with life-threatening injuries. First responders performed life-saving measures and rushed the teens to section hospitals.

One teen died of her injuries astatine the hospital. The different remains successful captious condition.

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Angle was a sophomore astatine Wakeland High School. She played shot for her schoolhouse squad and the nine team, FC Dallas. (Facebook/ Megan Taylor Angle)

A preliminary probe indicated that a 16-year-old lad was driving a Jeep Wrangler portion pulling the 2 girls connected a sled, constabulary said. Witnesses said the sled struck a curb and collided with a tree.

Police said they would not merchandise the identities of the 3 teens to the nationalist arsenic they are each juveniles, but a societal media station by Megan Angle said the miss who died was her daughter, Elizabeth Angle. 

Debra Newby, left, and 2 others basal by a makeshift memorial, Monday, Jan 26, 2026, successful Frisco, Texas, wherever implicit the play a 16-year-old pistillate mislaid her beingness successful a sledding mishap that critically injured another. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

"It is with heavy despair and utter daze that Brian and I denote the passing of our beauteous 16-year-old girl, Elizabeth Marie Angle," she wrote.

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Angle remembered her girl arsenic "a agleam light, a amusive spirit, a brave soul" who had conscionable got her driver's licence and a car.

"Life is fleeting and precious. I instrumentality comfortableness that she had radical helping her til the end," Angle wrote. "We volition ne'er beryllium the aforesaid and ne'er hide however overmuch emotion she brought to our family. Please assistance her up successful prayer."

A makeshift memorial is shown astatine the tract Monday, Jan. 26, 2026 successful Frisco, Texas, wherever a 16-year-old pistillate mislaid her beingness successful a sledding mishap that critically injured another. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Angle was a sophomore astatine Wakeland High School. She played shot for her schoolhouse squad and the nine team, FC Dallas.

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Police said the probe remains active. The section warned citizens that snowfall and crystal tin make highly slippery surfaces and pb to superior oregon adjacent deadly accidents.

A wintertime tempest brought dense snowfall and crippling crystal to ample swaths of the nation, including Texas, implicit the weekend. Most areas successful North Texas were covered successful ice, sleet and snow, creating hazardous conditions.