Search for missing 8-year-old girl following fatal crash continues on Christmas Day

SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - One person is dead and first responders have been searching well over 24 hours for a missing eight-year-old girl after a one-vehicle crash off US-75 into a flooded Sherman drainage Tuesday morning.

As News 12 reported: A white Chevrolet Traverse was carried by strong waters southbound alongside the US-75 service road and stopped just before Houston st. Six people were inside the vehicle. Four were rescued and taken to Sherman Medical Center.

Authorities spent the day searching for the other missing two. One body was recovered late Tuesday afternoon, but the other remained missing.

The city’s spokesperson, Nate Strauch, said crews including Texas Task Force 2 searched Post Oak Creek throughout most of the night to try and locate the girl and resumed before sunrise Wednesday morning, “with members expanding the search area outside of Sherman and into the lower branches of Post Oak and Choctaw creeks.”

Sherman PD wrote to News 12: “searchers have covered approximately seven miles of creek today but regrettably have not located the missing girl. We are shifting our focus into the county, targeting some possible locations where we have not looked yet. Our search will continue until dark today, then we will resume searching again before daylight.”

No names or ages have been released but Sherman PD said the family was traveling from Durant to Mckinney.

News 12 will continue to follow this story.