One person is dead after the vehicle he or she was driving ended up in a pond in Kaufman County Sunday night, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety officer.
The crash happened Sunday in Kemp, and Monday the town's mayor identified the driver as 24-year-old Kaitlin Leanne Lawrence.
Mayor Laura Peace said Lawrence was a young mother and that she didn't make it home Saturday night.
State troopers and Kemp police and firefighters rushed to the pond after receiving a report of a car in the water late Sunday afternoon.
After a search, they found the car submerged in a pond shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday, and Lawrence's body was recovered around 10:15 p.m., according to Peace.
There was a group of residents visibly upset and hugging each other as the discovery was made.
It was unclear if the evening rain or the wet roads contributed to the crash.