Wesley Caskey Charged With DWI After Pickup Crashed House

Police arrested a 24-year-old man Wednesday night after his pickup truck slammed into a house in northeast Abilene. Deputies found Wesley Caskey in his truck when they arrived at the house near the corner of Campus Court and East Ambler Avenue. Caskey was traveling east when the vehicle swerved across the road and ran through a fence, a shed and slammed into the house. No one was injured but the crash caused major damage. Caskey was charged with driving while intoxicated. Police say it's his second DWI arrest and that enhances the charges.

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A Georgetown High School English teacher was killed in a wreck Wednesday morning. Deirdre Furr, 54, was on her way to pick up her daughter in Bertram when the wreck occurred at about 7:09 a.m. on Texas 29 two miles east of Bertram in Burnet County. Texas Department of Public Safety officials said Furr was driving a 2004 Ford Taurus heading west on Texas 29 and was turning left when a 2005 Chevrolet TrailBlazer, also traveling west, hit Furr’s car. Furr was not wearing a seat belt and was pronounced dead at 8:12 a.m. The TrailBlazer driver, Stephanie Morrow, 22,…

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A high-speed pursuit through Lubbock ended in a three-vehicle accident at the intersection of 82nd Street and Quaker Avenue Wednesday afternoon. The incident started when a DPS trooper tried to pull over a gray Dodge pickup on south U.S. 87. The driver, 27-year-old Damon Barraza Jr., refused to stop and the trooper chased after the truck. The truck turned onto Woodrow Road and two of the three occupants, Fred Andrada and Casey Chambers of Lubbock, fled on foot. Lubbock-Cooper ISD police assisted DPS in capturing the pair, and at 3:05 p.m. the suspects were apprehended. The chase continued on to…

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A collision of two trucks in Midland County on Tuesday left three men dead and one in critical condition. Frank Ortega, 26, of Odessa, was driving a truck with two passengers when he tried to pass another car. He swerved to avoid hitting another truck driven by Manuel Loera, 47, but both drivers swerved in the same direction and collided head-on at about 7 a.m. The two trucks landed in a ditch on FM 1788, about six miles south of Interstate 20. Both drivers and Ortega's passenger, Joshua Stearns, 27, from New Caney, were pronounced dead at the scene. Stearns…

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Two people have died in a fiery crash Tuesday just north of the Canadian bridge on Highway 287. The Potter County Fire Department responded to the scene of the accident at about 11:12 a.m. and found a pickup fully engulfed in flames. Department of Public Safety officials said a 2011 Ford Mustang was traveling south in the northbound lane of U.S. Highway 287 when it slammed head on with a 2002 Chevrolet pickup heading north in the northbound lane. The Chevrolet caught on fire and firefighters extinguished the flames. The two drivers were pronounced dead at the scene. They were…

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A man was killed after his car rolled off the road and onto a cotton field in Hall County Monday morning. According to the Department of Public Safety, a 1994 Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck was heading south on FM 657 when, for unknown reasons, the pickup swerved to the left and crashed at about 7:30 a.m. The vehicle then rolled several times in the cotton field four miles south of Lakeview on Farm-to-Market Road 657. The driver, identified as Richard Carl Wood, 51, of Amarillo, was pronounced dead at the scene by Hall County Justice of the Peace Cody Bell.…

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Three people, including a 6-year-old boy, died and three others injured in a single-vehicle rollover accident Sunday afternoon near El Paso. Police said a vehicle carrying six people may have had a tire blowout, which caused it to overturn on Interstate 10 in Culberson County shortly before 2:30 p.m. Pronounced dead at the scene were Rosalinda Santana, 42, Lydia Jimenez, 23, and 6-year-old Margarito Cavazos. All three were from Laredo. The other three passengers were transported to University Medical Center in El Paso in stable condition. They were identified as Lisa Zamora, 33, Kimberly Zamora, 19, and Juan Zamora, 14.…

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A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper was injured Sunday night after his patrol car was hit by a pickup driven by his son. Trooper Bob Sims was working patrol Sunday evening and was on the way to have dinner with his family when the crash happened near the intersection of U.S. Highway 180 and State Highway 67 east of Breckenridge at about 7 p.m. Cody, his son, was following the trooper’s cruiser in a pickup together with his wife, Jessah, and Bob Sims’ wife, Linda, as they all headed to a restaurant. Bob Sims then "sees a violator so…

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Early Sunday’s single-vehicle rollover in Sanger left one person dead and three others injured. Colbey Parsons of Iowa Park was pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck which happened at approximately 2:46 a.m. near the 11600 block of FM 2450 near Chisum Road, said the Texas Department of Public Safety. The 22-year-old was driving north in a 2005 Chevrolet pick-up truck when he attempted to make a left turn, overcorrected and struck a drainage culvert. The pick-up rolled over and Parsons died at the crash. His three passengers, all from Saint Jo, were injured in the wreck. Justin Coats,…

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A man was struck and killed by a truck Thursday night on Abilene street. The victim, identified as 32-year-old Zachery Joseph Melton of Abilene, was pronounced dead at the scene near the 400 block of Sayles Blvd at 6:55 p.m. In a police report, Melton was wearing dark-colored clothing while walking on Sayles Boulevard when a northbound brown 1986 Chevrolet struck him. The driver, Gabriel Borrego, 71, of Abilene, said he did not see the pedestrian prior to the accident. Borrego was not injured. “Alcohol was present at the scene, but at this time, it is unknown if alcohol was…

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