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An auto pedestrian accident on Friday claimed the life of a Beaumont man. Lucas David Aubrey, 33, of Beaumont, was walking on the inside lane of traffic when a westbound 2003 Chevy Trailblazer struck him. The incident happened at around 9 p.m. Friday on Highway 90, 1.8 miles west of Broadway Street. Aubrey was pronounced dead on the scene. The driver of the Trailblazer has been identified as Mack Clarence Mitchell, 37, of Baytown. No charges have been filed. The accident remains under investigation by the Department of Public Safety.

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Two Bastrop County residents died in a double fatal traffic crash in Bastrop County. The accident happened just after 6 a.m. Friday morning on Highway 304, about 15 miles south of Bastrop. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, a northbound pickup truck driven by 38-year-old Ronnie Tumlinson crossed the center line and crashed head-on into a southbound Toyota Prius driven by 60-year-old Norine Douglas. Both drivers died at the scene.  Neither was wearing a seat belt. Douglas was a bi-lingual special education teacher at Red Rock Elementary. DPS is still investigating to determine what caused Tumlinson to cross…

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A man was killed after he was ejected from his motorcycle in Grayson County early Wednesday morning. The motorcyclist, identified as Rodney Lee Thomas, 34, of Denison, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. The fatal crash happened at around 1 a.m. on west Dripping Springs Road. Thomas was ejected from the 2003 Kawasaki motorcycle he was riding on when it went off the road. The Texas Department of Safety says no other information is immediately available.

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A motorcycle crash in Taylor County Thursday morning claimed the life of a 27-year-old member of the 7th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Dyess Air Force Base. The accident occurred when a 2008 Toyota Camry heading east on County Road 314 allegedly pulled out in front of a motorcycle, driven by Stephen Caswell Freethy, 27, of Abilene, Texas, travelling north on Farm Market 707. The motorcycle and the car collided, ejecting Freethy. Freethy was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:42 a.m. He was wearing a helmet. He was on his way to work at the base. Sheryl Ashby McClendon, 55,…

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A pilot in a low-flying helicopter was killed in a crash in rural south Louisiana just before noon Wednesday. Hugh Clifton Kelley, 66, of Beaumont, Texas, was flying his Bell 206 helicopter to Louisiana for routine maintenance and was travelling back to Beaumont when the crash happened. The four-seat aircraft was flying low and crashed into a wire attached to a radio tower on a farm land near Crowley. Kelley was the only person on board of the helicopter during the accident. There were no injuries on the ground. The tower appeared stable after the crash but authorities have to…

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A vehicle hit and killed a 90-year-old woman while crossing a street in a motorized wheelchair Tuesday morning. Just after 7 a.m., Erna Zwicke of San Antonio was crossing the busy Fredericksburg Road when she rolled in front of a vehicle that had just topped a hill. She apparently didn't hear the car approach or the sound of the horn as police reports her hearing was impaired. The vehicle struck Zwicke as the driver was unable to change lanes. Zwicke was transported to University Hospital and died shortly after. The driver of the vehicle that struck the woman stopped and…

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A woman was killed after she was ejected from the vehicle in a car crash in a fatal one-vehicle crash early Monday. The crash happened at 2:47am when a 2004 Nissan Maxima was travelling at high rate of speed and slammed into two power poles before landing at the intersection of Main Street and Davis Street at Memorial Drive. The passenger, 21-year-old Hollie Elizabeth Chavers of Millbrook, was ejected from the vehicle. She was transported to Baptist South where she later died. The driver, 23-year-old Benjamin Lee Gibson of Montgomery, had to be cut from the vehicle and rushed to…

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A 20-year-old motorcyclist was killed after hitting two vehicles on Interstate 35 Sunday afternoon. New Braunfels police have identified the victim as James Curtis of Cleburne. Curtis was travelling north on FM 306 at about 1:00 p.m. when he lost control of his motorcycle. He swerved right and hit a car stopped on the shoulder. His bike then crashed into another vehicle parked on the shoulder and came to rest on the highway. Curtis was taken to Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio, where he was pronounced dead.

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A 24-year-old man from Vidor has died in a Sunday morning single-vehicle crash in Vinton, Louisiana. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office responded to a single vehicle crash at approximately 4:15 a.m. on the 1500 block of Wright Road in Vinton. A truck was heading north on Wright Road when the vehicle seemed to have run off the road and crashed into a tree. The deputies spoke with the truck’s driver, Devon D. Courmier, 23, of Orange, Texas, on the scene and they detected a strong odor of alcohol emitting from her breath. She was treated with non-life threatening injuries in…

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A well-respected Midland County rodeo bullfighter is critically injured after a tragic accident at a bull riding memorial in Lufkin Saturday night. The 27-year-old bullfighter, Cody Hollums, is still in a coma Tuesday at the East Texas Medical Center Hospital in Tyler. The incident happened when a rider was thrown off a bull and Hollums rushed in to protect him. The bull started spinning around, hitting Hollums in the chest, and knocked him to the ground. One of the bull’s legs kicked Hollums on the side of his head. Hollums was instantly transported to a Lufkin hospital and was later…

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