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The Department of Public Safety seeks witnesses of the accident that killed a woman on Sunday. A pickup truck was heading east on Highway 21 in northeast Brazos County when a piece of angle iron that evidently flew off the trailer of an oncoming 18-wheeler crashed into the windshield of the truck. Charles Robert, 35, who was driving the pickup, was uninjured but his passenger Tracey White, 33, of Bryan, was hit by the iron and was sent to a nearby hospital where she died. The driver of the westbound 18-wheeler did not stop after the accident. The DPS is…

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A McMullen County accident Monday morning that involved heavy trucks killed two drivers. The fatal accident happened on July 30, 2012, shortly after 10 a.m. on Texas 72 about 10 miles east of Tilden, when a tractor-trailer rig veered across the centerline and hit two oncoming rigs. According to the Department of Public Safety, the tractor-trailer rig’s driver, Ramiro Cavasos, 44, of Edinburg, and Robert Wayne Nabors, 61, of Como, who was driving a rig pulling a tanker, died at the scene. The third driver, Claude Leach, 34, of Big Foot was being treated for internal injuries at University Hospital in San Antonio.…

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Two people were taken to the hospital after a car crash in the 600 block of West 17th Street on July 30, 2012. The accident occurred at about 11:45 a.m when a gold Chevrolet Trailblazer tried to pass on the left side of a white Crown Victoria, but Leary Owen, who was driving the Crown Victoria, turned left into a residence area and collided with the Trailblazer. The Trailblazer’s driver, Barbara Heath, 28, overcorrected and the vehicle rolled over once. The trailblazer had three passengers, Scott David Collard, 27, and two children, an 8-year-old and a 2-year-old. According to San Angelo Police Department…

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Two women and five children were on board a minivan traveling west on I-10 on July 30, 2012 when one of the vehicle’s tires blew out causing the driver to lose control. The minivan rolled over and landed on the eastbound lanes of the freeway. Another impact occurred when an eastbound Ford Expedition tried to avoid hitting the minivan, swerved but crashed right into it. Investigators believed this impact killed the 2 women and 3 children inside the minivan. Brittany Leigh Barnes, 25, Candace Denise Barnes, 48, Aaron Israel Arenas, 5, Caiden Matthew Barnes, 4, and Bethanie Ann Barnes, 1,…

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A five-year-old boy from Pine Bluff was killed when his family’s Chevy Suburban flipped over in the middle of a Texas highway on Monday. The family from Arkansas was on a vacation when the accident happened. A friend vacationing with the family was driving along the Eastex Freeway (U.S. 59) at Parker Road in Houston when she lost control of the vehicle and swerved into the center divider, then hit a light pole and rolled onto its roof. Five-year-old Trace Williams had been riding in the back seat when the SUV's right rear tire blew. He was pinned underneath the…

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Authorities have identified the two people who were killed while trying to help victims of a crash early Monday on I-35. Hector Cordoba and Emma Alcudia were hit and killed by a tanker truck that barreled into the scene of a wrong-way accident on I-35 South. After witnessing the wrong-way accident on I-35 South, Hector Cordoba, a bus driver from Laredo, stopped his bus on the side of the road to get out and help. A woman who works in a nearby rest stop, Emma Alcudia, ran to the accident to aid the victims. But a tanker truck barreled into…

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A fatal crash in North Texas on July 29, 2012 left one man dead. Police said Eddie Durrett, 57, was driving his SUV late Sunday night when he failed to yield the right of way and slammed his vehicle into a tanker truck. Durrett was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the truck, 50-year-old David Talley, was uninjured. It was reported that Durrett worked for Conoco-Phillips and he is survived by six young children. Original story: http://www.kwes.com/story/19162243/midland-man-killed-in-crash-in-north-texas

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At about 5 p.m. on Sunday, Laura Lee, 54, of Midland, was driving north on Holiday Hill in a Chevy Tahoe when she may have failed to yield to an eastbound tractor-trailer at the intersection with Craddick Highway. Midland Fire Department training chief Stephen Forbes said the tractor-trailer split down its middle when it rolled over as a result of the crash. The collision caused the diesel-carrying 18-wheeler trailer to burst into flames catching both vehicles on fire. DPS said Lee apparently had either come to a complete stop or yielded before pulling out in front of the tractor-trailer. Lee…

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The corner of Highway 77 that holds a painful reminder of a life tragically lost, has now become a place where friends and colleagues of a fallen officer gather, to find comfort and solace. Officer Josh Williams, a 17-year veteran Waxahachie Police officer, was responding to a call on the 600 block of North Highway 77 when he was hit by a driver speeding and driving without lights. Williams was sent to Baylor Medical City in Waxahachie where he later died. The 24-year old driver, Dylyn Richards, had a blood alcohol level that was over the legal limit, the night…

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Owner of biotechnology firm, Diomics Inc., and his 12-year-old son died in a Colorado plane crash on July 21st. Jeff Morhet, 43, of Jasper, and his oldest son, Jack, were flying to an air show in Osh Kosh, Wisconsin in his CJ-6A airplane when they crashed. Both were killed in the wreck. Morhet is survived by his wife, Deirdre, and their other children Alexandra, Teddy and Gemma. "They were amazing, amazing people, my husband gave more than people ever really know about him," Deirdre told Fox 10. "Jack was so excited to go. Just him and dad, nobody else." Morhet was born in Jasper…

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