Amy Anders Killed in Crash, Sheriff’s Worker Charged

A woman was killed Saturday night in a two-vehicle crash in Fort Worth and a county worker faces intoxication manslaughter charge. The fatal wreck happened at about 6:15 p.m in the 5900 block of Sandshell Drive. Amy Anders, 23, was pulling out of a parking lot of a movie theater north of Santa Fe Lane when a pickup truck driven by Alan Michael McKinney, 29, slammed into her car. Anders died at the scene. A 21-year-old male passenger in her vehicle was taken to a hospital in critical condition after being extricated from the wreckage. McKinney, an employee of the…

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A man was killed and another injured in a single-vehicle crash in Killeen early Saturday morning. Killeen police said the accident happened at 12:59 a.m. at the 1900 block of W. Stan Schlueter Loop when a silver Mitsubishi Eclipse left the north side of the road. The car crashed into a concrete drainage culvert, hitting the driver’s side of the vehicle. The driver, identified as 29 year-old Leonel Feliciano Fernandez, was partially ejected from the Eclipse and was killed instantly in the wreck. A passenger was found near the vehicle and was transported by ambulance to Scott & White Memorial…

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An elderly woman was killed after her family’s unsecured vehicle that was being cleaned in a car wash in Conroe ran over her. The accident happened when an attendant at a car wash accidentally put a truck in drive instead of neutral just before placing it on an automated car wash track. Juana Gonzalez, 72, and her family were waiting for their truck about 50 feet away when the vehicle sped through the track and hit her. Local media reports said a man pushed his pregnant wife out of the way as he jumped to safety, but the truck hit…

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A man was struck and killed by a flatbed truck as he tried to cross Interstate 35 in Waco Friday afternoon. The accident happened at around 1:30 p.m. near the Forrest Street exit on the highway. Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said a man tried to cross the northbound lanes of I-35 when he was struck by an 18-wheeler hauling a load of cars. Initial reports said several other vehicles struck the man after he was hit by the one-ton truck. The victim, identified as Bobby Ray Gooden, 49, was transported to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center where he was…

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A single-vehicle rollover crash in Guadalupe County early Saturday left one man dead and four other people injured. The accident occurred when a vehicle carrying five people left the road for unknown reasons and rolled over on Laudbach Road near FM 20 at about 1 a.m. The crash killed the 40-year-old driver, Francisco Ledesma of Seguin. He was not wearing a seatbelt, said the Department of Public Safety. The four passengers were all transported to University Hospital. They were identified as Rachel Campos, 40; Adan Sanchez, 36; Julie Ann Ledesma, 36; and Jeffery Moreno, 39. No further information is available…

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A man who was fighting for his life from a motorcycle crash in Grand Prairie earlier this week has died Thursday. Kelly Wolfe, 52, was thrown from his 2009 Harley Davidson motorcycle and sustained head injuries in an accident which happened at around 5 p.m. Monday. He lost control of the bike as he tried to merge onto westbound I-20 from Great Southwest Parkway, near the Grand Prairie Municipal Airport. Wolfe was airlifted to Methodist Dallas Medical Center, where he eventually succumbed to his injuries Thursday morning.

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A man is facing an alcohol-related charge after he lost control of his pickup and slammed into a tree, sending his wife to a hospital. The accident happened at about 3:30 a.m. Thursday on FM 3277 near Fawn Road in Polk County. James Moffett, 31, of Livingston, was driving a 1995 Chevrolet on FM 3277 when his wheels left the road on the right side as he turned left. Moffett overcorrected and crossed into the westbound lane, drove into a ditch on the right side of the road before crashing into a tree. Moffett's wife was life-flighted to a Houston…

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A 48-year-old man died in a rollover crash Wednesday evening on Interstate 40. At about 9 p.m., a 2001 Ford pickup heading west on the inside lane of I-40 ricocheted off a 2010 Great Dane trailer, which was traveling west in the outside lane. Department of Public Safety troopers said the pickup crossed over the median and both lanes of eastbound I-40, and flipped numerous times. The pickup came to a rest on its tires facing east in a ditch about 30 feet from the shoulder near mile-marker 80 of eastbound I-40. The pickup driver, Steven Earl Lovelady of Amarillo,…

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A Fort Hood soldier was killed Wednesday night in a motorcycle accident in Copperas Cove. The fatal wreck happened before 11 p.m. about three miles south of Copperas Cove on Farm-to-Market Road 116, just inside the Bell County line. James Ryan Kurth, 26, was heading south on FM 116 riding a 2010 Harley Davidson motorcycle when he lost control in a curve, causing the bike to leave the roadway. According to DPS, Kurth was thrown from the bike and was pronounced dead on the scene by Bell County Justice of the Peace Bill Cooke. Kurth was not wearing a helmet…

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An elderly man died in a single-vehicle rollover crash in Jeff Davis County Wednesday afternoon. At about 4:45 p.m., Malcom James Barclay, 83, of Alpine, was driving a Chevrolet truck traveling south on Texas Highway 17, about 11 miles from the Reeves County line and 17.8 miles north of Fort Davis, when the crash occurred. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety in Pecos, Barclay lost control of the truck while negotiating a curve and overcorrected. He traveled into the northbound lane and rolled over several times before smashing into a fence. The truck landed on its passenger side,…

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