One East County teen died and another was critically injured in a one-vehicle crash on Old Highway 105 around 6:30 p.m. Thursday night. Jeremy Castleberry, 18 was transported to Conroe Regional Medical Center with severe head trauma. He passed away later Thursday night, a Conroe Regional spokesperson confirmed.


Rafael "Lee" Spencer, 19, was flown by air ambulance to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston's Texas Medical Center.
Spencer was driving and Castleberry was the passenger in Ford Thunderbird.
Department of Public Safety communications operator Hiram Davidson said the vehicle was eastbound on Old Highway 105 at a high rate of speed when it clipped a tree on the south side of the road, spinning sideways before it slid into a second tree and stopped facing west with the victims trapped inside.
Sheila Wagner and Miranda Bell live in the home next door to where Castleberry and Spencer spent the afternoon, just around the corner from where the crash occurred. Wagner said the pair left and she and Bell heard a loud crash a short time after that. "We went to make sure it wasn't my son," Wagner said.
The women said when they arrived they could see the pair were seriously injured and Castleberry was gasping for air.
Russell Schoonover, owner of Texan Towing and Recovery, which is located just down the street on the highway, was next on the scene.
He arrived to find Spencer talking, but Castleberry was in much worse shape and fading quickly. Schoonover performed CPR on the teen until emergency medical crews arrived and took over. While he kept the teen breathing, Wagner prayed. "They're so young," she said.
North Montgomery County and Cut and Shoot Fire Departments responded to the scene along with Montgomery County EMS.
Schoonover, Wagner and Bell all said they had seen far too many crashes on the roadway and wished people would take the tree lined road without shoulders at a slower speed.
Spencer was the less critically injured of the two, but his condition was not known as of press time.