Robert Keller in Critical Condition After I-20 Accident

A man is in critical condition Wednesday after he was trapped in a van when it collided with a gas tanker in I-20. A driver of an empty gas tanker was traveling on the frontage road in front of Lowes when he lost control, the Abilene police said. The tanker crossed the westbound lanes, slammed into a van and ended up in the median. The driver of the van, identified as Robert Keller, was transported to Hendrick Medical Center in critical condition. Keller is a Marine recruiter based in Abilene. The truck driver was uninjured.

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An elderly woman was struck and killed while crossing Ayers St. in Corpus Christi Wednesday evening. Elva Gonzalez was crossing Ayers near Roosevelt at about 6 p.m. when a car hit her. According to witnesses, the driver tried to veer off the way, but could not avoid hitting the 75-year-old woman. The driver stopped and tried to help her but she died upon impact. Funeral arrangements are pending.

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Today Rad Law Firm issued a press release on the successful settlement for a Carrollton client. The client was denied any and all claim by his apartment complex since there was an alcohol in his blood. Faced with injury and requiring surgery, the man turned to the professional personal injury attorneys of Rad Law Firm in Texas to assist him in achieving justice. The subsequent investigation pointed out several flaws with the staircase, not the least of which being that the stairs were not up to code. This created a potentially dangerous situation which obviously in this case materialized and…

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The overnight downpour caused several accidents early Wednesday including a fiery crash involving an 18-wheeler on Interstate 35E on the south side of downtown Dallas. The slippery roads caused the driver of a semi pulling a flatbed trailer to lose control, crash through a guardrail and down an embankment on southbound I-35E at about 4:30 a.m. The truck then burst into flames after crossing the northbound lanes and smash into a wall. A Good Samaritan who witnessed the crash pulled the driver out through the window of the cab, and to safety. “I saw flames coming from underneath the trailer,” Terry…

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A tractor-trailer crash in Midland Tuesday afternoon left one man dead and another in serious condition. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the wreck occurred at about 1 p.m. on Craddick Highway, about a half-mile west of Texas 349, when a pickup heading east collided with a big rig. The pickup driver, Lance Schneider, 50, of San Antonio, was pronounced dead on the scene. A passenger in the pickup, Dannie Schlag, 22, of Atascosa, was seriously injured and was transported to Midland Memorial Hospital. Both Schneider and Schlag were wearing seat belts. The trucker had minor injuries.

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A 22-year-old passenger of a pickup was killed in a one-vehicle rollover accident in Old Iowa Park Road, Wichita Falls. The Texas Department of Public Safety said Joseph Anthony Sousa, 22, of Iowa Park, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident which occurred at about 2:37 a.m. between Peterson Road and Bell Road. A pickup he was riding in was heading west on Iowa Park Road when it veered off the road, hit a power pole and overturned on its top. Sousa was partially ejected and died in the wreck. The driver, Charles Edwin Hill, 22, of Iowa…

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A bicyclist was struck and killed by an SUV Monday afternoon on FM 2499. According to Highland Village police, an SUV and a bicycle were both heading south in the right lane of FM 2499 just north of Harlington Drive when the crash happened at about 4 p.m. Monday. The 64-year-old bicyclist from Denton, Bob Pfarr, was flown by CareFlite medical helicopter to Medical Center of Plano where he eventually succumbed to his injuries Tuesday morning. The 19-year-old female driver from Highland Village was uninjured. Pfarr was a devoted cyclist. His father was an Olympian bike racer and was inducted…

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A motorcyclist was injured in a two-vehicle crash early Tuesday morning in Amarillo. Michael Taylor Ross Philley, 24, was traveling at a high rate of speed in his 2002 Suzuki motorcycle when he slammed into the rear of another vehicle at about 1 a.m. just north of the 16th street and Georgia intersection. Philley applied his brakes and the bike fell to the pavement as it slid into a black Dodge Neon. Philley was taken to the hospital where he was listed with life-threatening injuries. The three occupants of the Dodge Neon were uninjured.

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Early Sunday’s one-vehicle crash in Jones County left two people dead and two others in stable condition at Hendrick Medical Center. The fatal wreck was reported at about 1:45 a.m. in Jones County on U.S. Highway 180, one mile west of the intersection with Farm Road 600. A 2013 Infinity LL Suburban carrying four people was traveling eastbound on U.S. 180 in Jones County when its driver, Christopher Ryan Alaniz, 16, of New Home, Texas, fell asleep at the wheel. The vehicle drifted off of the roadway, hit a guardrail before going airborne at a dry creek bed and coming…

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A man was charged with driving while intoxicated after his vehicle was struck by a freight train Saturday night in Midland. The crash happened at about 5:38 p.m. near the intersection of North Carver Street and East Industrial Avenue. Benjamin Oakes, 60, of Midland was driving his pickup heading north on Carver Street and went through the crossing arms. He then stopped at the railroad tracks and an eastbound train slammed into the front end of the pickup. Oakes suffered minor injuries and was transported to Midland Memorial Hospital. A witness said the emergency bells did not sound at the…

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