Robert Victorino Jr. and Maria Botello Victorino Die in Ward County Accident

Early Monday’s traffic accident in Ward County claimed the lives of two Alpine residents and injured four others. The accident occurred at around 12:15 a.m. when a 1989 Chevrolet Suburban carrying five people missed the exit at Interstate 20 near mile marker 81 in Ward County. The driver, Robert Victorino, 59, of Alpine, backed the vehicle in order to make the exit when a westbound 2011 Volvo tractor/trailer rig slammed into the Suburban’s back. According to a Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman, the tractor trailer’s driver, Jose Luis Garcia of Santa Ana, Calif., did not see the Suburban over…

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A man is in critical condition following a motorcycle crash in Tyler Sunday afternoon. It was 3 p.m. when a motorcyclist was traveling west at an unsafe speed on Farm-to-Market Road 850, about half a mile west of County Road 21. The operator, John Bayless, lost control of the bike causing it to go into a ditch on the right side of the road and hit a culvert underneath a driveway. Texas Department of Public Safety said Bayless’ bike flipped and landed face down. He was not wearing a helmet. Bayless was responsive to emergency crews and was transported to…

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An El Paso police officer has been killed after he was struck while trying to remove a ladder in a chain-reaction traffic accident on Interstate 10. Officer Angel Garcia, 27, was outside of his patrol car with the lights flashing early Sunday as he tried to pull a ladder from the road when four vehicles crashed into each other in what police said to be a chain-reaction. The police car was involved in the accident and the officer was hit and killed. Garcia was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. Two other victims in an SUV…

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A Newton man was killed in Sunday’s five-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 27 just north of Sulphur near Houston River Road. Preliminary investigation indicated that several northbound vehicles were stopped on Hwy. 27 at around 4 p.m. when a northbound 2000 Ford F-350 driven by Steven Horner, 36, of Westlake struck a stopped 2003 Honda motorcycle and slammed into a 1990 Ford F-150. The F-150 rear-ended a 2000 Nissan Xterra fronting it and moved to the right side of the road. The F-150 continued forward hitting the rear of a 2007 Chevrolet Silverado and the multiple collisions finally came to…

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A woman was struck and killed by a car Saturday night in Red Bird. Debra Hardaway Neal, 57, was taken to Methodist Dallas Medical Center where she later died after a 2009 white Nissan Altima hit her while crossing W. Camp Wisdom Road, near Chaucer Place at about 8 p.m. There is no crosswalk or traffic light at the location of the accident, authorities said. The unidentified driver of the car told police that she was driving westbound at about 40 mph when she saw Neal standing in the center lane, appearing to have unsteady balance. The driver had slowed…

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A Cincinnati Reds draft pick is listed in critical condition and his father killed after the truck they were driving in overturned Saturday morning in Ozona, Texas. Mason Felt, an 18-year-old 2012 fifth-round draft pick, was driving a 2004 Ford F-150 truck on Interstate 10 west of Ozona when it drifted onto the shoulder and went off the road. He went through both lanes of traffic into the center median as he overcorrected before the truck turned over. His father, 51-year-old Richard Felt, was pronounced dead at the scene by Ozona Justice of the Peace Fred Deaton. He was not…

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An Amarillo man and his son were killed in a plane crash after leaving TAC Air in Amarillo on their way to Fort Worth on Friday. Kelly O’Neal, a Colorado Springs, Colo. dentist and amateur pilot, and his passenger Robert O’Neal, 79, of Amarillo, were pronounced dead at about 9 p.m. after their plane went down in high winds near Claude. Officials said at about 6 p.m., the 1974 twin-engine Beechcraft King Air disappeared from radar after stopping at TAC Air in Amarillo to pick up a passenger and crashed in a field about 20 miles southeast of TAC Air.…

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A woman is in critical condition and a man is facing charges following a one-vehicle traffic accident early Thursday in San Antonio. Police said a car driven by Mike Hernandez, 41, was going about 90 mph when he lost control and hit the concrete island on 4300 block of Old Highway 90, then slid across the eastbound lanes and slammed into a telephone pole. Upon impact, Hernandez and his passenger, Maria Garcia, 43, were both ejected from the vehicle. Neither was wearing a seatbelt. Prior to the incident that occurred at about 1 a.m., Hernandez and Garcia had been arguing…

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A 33-year-old man died in Wednesday night’s crash on Interstate 10 near Medical Drive. The fatal wreck happened at about 11:21 p.m. when a Toyota Tundra traveling east on Interstate 10 tried to pass a Ford pickup but clipped it and hit a concrete barrier to the right. The Tundra then careened across the freeway and into the concrete barrier on the left. The Tundra’s driver, Abel Garza Jr., was not wearing a seatbelt and was instantly killed in the accident. Larry Joe Cerda, 44, the Ford’s driver, was uninjured. Authorities said speeding and unsafe lane change were factors that…

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Two Dallas Police motorcycle officers have been injured after a crash near Zang curve Tuesday afternoon. At about 12:15 p.m., Officers Wayne Nichols and Michael Keating were driving side by side on northbound I-35E when a Toyota Camry in an adjacent lane swerved to avoid a car in front of it which suddenly stopped. The Camry struck one of the motorcycle officers, sending his bike into the other officer's bike, causing both motorcycles to tip over. Nichols was taken to Methodist, and Keating to Baylor. Both sustained non-life threatening injuries. The driver of the Camry was also taken to a…

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