A child was killed and a Maud teenager was injured in a crash near Red Lick Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers were called to the crash scene on Myrtle Springs Road about 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

Officials said Jessie Strickland, 19, of Maud, was driving east with a 10-year-old male passenger when her 2007 Monte Carlo failed to negotiate a curve. Strickland left the road and crashed into a tree, said Sgt. Ethan Sartor, TxDPS public information officer.

The child was pronounced dead at the scene. Strickland was taken to a Texarkana hospital in critical condition.

Strickland and the child were not wearing seatbelts, Sartor said.

The crash is still under investigation.