Houston police say when the other car veered into her lane and hit her, Burrell's car careened off the freeway and fell to the access road below, upside down.
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She would not survive.
Driver dies after car flips off the North Freeway
"She was on her way home and I was still at work," said husband McKinsey Burrell. "I don't know what happened -- that's what they told me."
McKinsey Burrell worked side by side with his wife at a Chevron truck stop on McCarty Road in northeast Houston. He was a security guard and she worked in the kitchen. When Maryrose finished her shift Thursday night, McKinley walked her out to her car.
"We just talked, like I normally talked. I told her I loved her and to take care on the way home," he said.
The couple said their farewells around 10:30 p.m. An hour later, Maryrose Burrell was dead. Eyewitnesses said a group of bikers nearby rushed to her car. They managed to flip the car right side up, but it was too late. She was already dead.
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"She's an incredible wife, incredible mother(and a) good cook," says her now-widowed husband.
Houston police said the driver of the other car stopped. There is an investigation underway, but no charges have been filed.
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