The 64-year-old musician died instantly after another car slammed into her vehicle as it was trying to overtake on a highway outside of El Paso Friday afternoon, TMZ reports.
The driver of the other vehicle was rushed to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while Lynch was declared dead at the scene.
Lynch co-founded The Dixie Chicks alongside Robin Lynn Macy, Martie Erwin and Emily Erwin back in 1990.
The Texan-born songstress recorded three albums with the band before leaving in 1993.
Lynch originally played upright bass for the wildly popular country group, before providing lead vocals on their third album, “Shouldn’t a Told You That.”
Little is known about Lynch’s life and career after her departure from the band.
She had one daughter, Asia, and was married to Mac Wells, who had won $26.8 million in a lottery during the early 1990s.
Lynch purportedly spent her free time “learning to oil paint” and had no regrets about leaving the Dixie Chicks after suffering from exhaustion.
She also spoke fondly of her five years with the group, declaring: “It was worth. I’d get anemic all over again to do it.”
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