Felipe Turrubiates Victim of Edinburg Hit-and-Run

A bicyclist was a victim of a hit-and-run accident in Edinburg Tuesday night. Felipe Turrubiates, 63, lost a leg and remains in critical condition after the accident which happened at about 7 p.m. on Rogers Road. TxDPS  are asking anyone with information on the accident or the location of the driver to call the Weslaco TxDPS office at 956-565-7600.

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An 83-year-old woman was killed following a crash on a rural highway in Coryell County Tuesday afternoon. The incident occurred just after 1:30 p.m. near the intersection of Farm-to-Market road 116 and Coryell County road 145. Dorothy Vinghouse Moore, 83, of Copperas Cove, was driving north on FM 116 in a 2001 Dodge pickup truck when she lost control of the vehicle causing it to veer off the paved surface, overturn and hit a tree. Moore was pronounced dead at the scene by Coryell County Justice of the Peace Beverly Jones. The Department of Public Safety report said she was…

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A head-on collision in Lipscomb County involving a car and a tractor–trailer left one man dead on Monday. The accident happened at about 7:10 a.m. on U.S. Highway 60 about six miles west of Higgins. Texas Department of Public Safety said an oil rig worker, James Lee Frederick, 44, of Higgins, was traveling east in a 1993 Buick Roadmaster. He fell asleep and glided into the westbound lane and then slammed into a 2012 Kenworth truck towing a flatbed trailer. Frederick was taken to Northwest Texas Hospital where he was later pronounced dead at 10:03 a.m. The truck driver, Tristan…

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A 26-year-old man was killed after he was ejected from his vehicle in a one-vehicle crash in Knox County. David Anthony Lamb from Seymour died Monday morning after the crash on U.S. Highway 82, about five miles east of Benjamin, Texas at around 2:00 a.m. Lamb was traveling westbound on the highway in a 2003 Dodge Pickup when he failed to negotiate a curve, causing the truck to skid across the eastbound lane, go into a south barrow ditch and overturn through a fence. Lamb, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the pickup. He was pronounced dead…

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A head-on crash in Karnes County left one woman dead and five people, including two children, injured. The crash happened at about 1:50 a.m. Sunday when an SUV heading north on Texas 239 drove onto the southbound lane, for an unknown reason, and struck a Ford pickup carrying five people. One of the pickup’s passengers, 68-year-old Ofelia Cruz Cortez, was pronounced dead on the scene of the crash. Both drivers and the occupants of the pickup were taken to University Hospital for treatment of their injuries. The driver of the pickup, 33-year-old Irene Cortez, sustained critical injuries to her head…

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Sunday night’s two-vehicle collision in southeast Austin left one person dead and four children injured. At about 8 p.m., a Chevrolet Suburban and 18-wheeler collided on Hwy 183 southbound near the Hwy 290 intersection. According to Austin police, the Suburban was stuck in a pole, pinning its occupants inside. The right front passenger in the Suburban, Belinda Cisneros, 28, was pronounced dead on the scene.  Four children were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The investigation into what lead to the accident continues.

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A three-vehicle crash on the North Side early Sunday morning left one man injured. The San Antonio police reported that a blue Mitsubishi was traveling at a high rate of speed on Interstate 10 near Callaghan Road when its driver lost control of the vehicle. The Mitsubishi crossed the median and struck two oncoming vehicles in the westbound lanes. One of the drivers involved in the crash, Jason Hoffman, 37, was transported to University Hospital and escaped life threatening injuries. Another driver is under investigation for drunk driving. The driver of the Mitsubishi fled the scene on foot. This crash…

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A 66-year-old motorcyclist died Sunday at a local hospital, a day after he was hurt from a crash in Tarrant County. The victim, identified as Nathan Berman of Fort Worth, sustained blunt trauma to his head and chest after he crashed his motorcycle on Farm Market Road 718 and Maxwell Boulevard in an unincorporated area of Tarrant County at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Berman died early Sunday morning at John Peter Smith Hospital. The Tarrant County medical examiner's office said his death was ruled an accident. No further information is available at this stage.

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Every year, there are more than 500,000 accidents between cars and trucks. In 10 percent of those accidents, someone dies and there is a 98 percent chance the fatality will be the driver of the passenger vehicle. An 18-wheeler accident is most likely to occur during the daytime and especially in rural areas. Accident prevention tips for truck drivers. * Drive the speed limit. It is common sense which is also supported by statistics that an 18-wheeler accident is more likely to occur when the driver is speeding than when the driver is following the speed limit for trucks. An…

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A weekend crash on the East Side claimed the life of a long-time employee at the San Antonio Express-News. The wreck on Interstate 10 near Martin Luther King Drive occurred when Sylvia Martinez, 60, veered off the highway and into a guard rail at around 4 p.m. Saturday. Martinez was pronounced dead at the San Antonio Military Medical Center. Martinez was the newspaper's main phone line operator. She had worked for the company for about 30 years. Diana Jimenez, a close friend and co-worker said Martinez was reportedly on her way to AT&T Center, where she also worked part-time as…

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