Nikeisha Smith Hit and Killed in Street
Police stresses the importance of using approved walkways especially at night after a woman was struck on a roadway Sunday night and died. Haskell Richardson, 47, was driving his 1969 Chevy pickup truck and was on his way to his girlfriend’s house Sunday night. He was on Vine street, about to take a right at […]
Tracey White Dies After Angle Iron from 18-Wheeler Hits Windshield
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, […]
Ramiro Cavasos and Robert Wayne Nabors Killed in Heavy Truck Collision
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 […]
Crash Sends Barbara Heath and Scott David Collard to Hospital
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, […]
5 Died in West Texas I-10 Crash
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 […]
Trace Williams Killed in Texas Accident During Family Vacation
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 […]
Good Samaritans Killed on I-35 Identified
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 […]
Eddie Durrett Killed in Crash in North Texas
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, […]
Laura Lee Dead in Midland Crash
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 […]
Officer Josh Williams Killed in the Line of Duty
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 […]