Austin EMS Captain Randy Trinkle Killed in Car Crash

The Captain of the Austin EMS died in a head-on traffic collision on 290 East, near the city limits of Fredericksburg, around 9 o’clock Saturday morning. Captain Randy Trinkle struck another car near a construction site as he headed home to Fredericksburg after working an overnight shift as an EMS. Trinkle was transported to Hill Country Memorial Hospital in Fredericksburg, where he was pronounced dead. Trinkle was 46. In a press release, the EMS said Capt. Trinkle was a paramedic and a 15-year veteran of Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services. He served in many capacities, most recently as a training…

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A Jackson Heights volunteer fireman remains in critical condition Saturday, a day after he was hurt in a one-vehicle rollover crash. Three members of the Jackson Heights Volunteer fire team, C.J. Redwine, Gary Robinson, and Jalen Smith, were on their way to the fire station to respond to a tractor accident in the area when the accident happened on FM 2767 just after 10 p.m. Smith, who was not driving the vehicle, was ejected after the vehicle rolled over. Redwine and Robinson sustained minor injuries while Smith remains in ICU at East Texas Medical Center. Friends and co-workers of Smith…

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Friends and community members mourn the loss of Sanger City Council member who died Friday evening following a two-vehicle crash in Young County, two and a half miles east of Graham. According to Texas Department of Public Safety, Robert “Rusty” Patton was heading east on U.S. Highway 380 in his 2008 Chevrolet pickup when he crashed into an eastbound 2006 Dodge pickup from behind as the Dodge slowed to make a left turn at around 1:31 p.m. Patton, 66, was transported to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth with serious injuries. He was pronounced dead later that night at…

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Following the official opening of the stretch of highway on Route 130 where there is now a nationwide highest speed limit of 85 miles per hour, Rad Law Firm issued a press release advising that it is likely that this higher speed limit will claim more lives. On the day the tollway started charging drivers for using the highway, the first fatality was immediately a fact. Of course, car accidents happen at any given speed but statistics show that which each speed increase the percentage of fatal accidents rise too. Getting into an accident at 60 mph is bad, getting…

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A helicopter crash near Childress County Tuesday claimed the life of a 23-year-old McLean man and sent another to the hospital. A Brim Aviation helicopter, piloted by Keith Hard, 42, of Butte County, Calif., was placing lines on top of a transmission line when it lost power and crashed at about 4 p.m. The Hughes 369D rotorcraft hovered about 150 feet above the ground with Jonathan David Suhr, 23, of McLean sitting on a seat suspended 50 feet below the helicopter hanging a roller on a power line. The helicopter lost power and fell, dropping Suhr with it. The two…

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A 30-year-old man died and another person injured in a two-vehicle accident on US 83 just 15 miles south of Canadian, Texas Tuesday morning. The incident happened at about 7 a.m. when a 2007 International truck towing a trailer swerved to the right to avoid an oncoming 1993 Nissan which crossed the median. The Nissan struck the front left of the truck-trailer causing it to go off the road to the right. The Nissan’s driver, Roger Eric Hanna, Jr., 30, from Elk City, OK, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:10 a.m. by…

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A man died on Monday in a hospital from his injuries in Sunday morning’s traffic accident on Farm-to-Market Road 622. A hospital spokeswoman said, A. J. Ripps, 25, of Goliad, was in critical condition late Monday afternoon and died later that evening. Ripps was seriously injured after he was ejected from his 2003 Ford F-250 pickup when it rolled near the intersection of Leisure Lane at about 3:16 a.m. Sunday. Ripps was reportedly traveling at an unsafe speed as he was heading west on the farm road and was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident.…

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A Port Arthur man involved in a two-vehicle accident on I-10 west of Sulphur has died Monday morning. The incident occurred before 10 a.m. near mile marker 17 when a 1999 Jeep heading east on Interstate 10 moved from the middle lane to the outside lane to pass an 18-wheeler. The driver, Varghese K. Paily, 52, of Port Arthur, Texas, lost control of the vehicle, causing it to rotate and hit the rear of a 2001 Ford pick-up truck that was parked on the right shoulder, the Louisiana State Police said. Paily and the driver of the pickup, Richard D.…

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A man was killed in a head-on crash on U.S. Highway 281 north of Lampasas Sunday night. At about 7:55 p.m., 18-year-old Stephen Schutze of Cedar Park was traveling north on U.S. 281 about 10 miles north of Lampasas in a Ford Mustang when he lost control after he attempted to evade an oncoming white pickup, which tried to pass several southbound vehicles. The car drifted off the roadway onto an improved shoulder and began to skid. It crossed the median before it slammed head-on into a southbound Dodge pickup, which was at the head of the line of vehicles…

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A rollover crash early Sunday morning on Interstate-40 in Wheeler County left one man dead and another person injured. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the driver of a 2001 Ford Expedition, Cleophus Nash, 56, of Amarillo, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. The single vehicle crash happened at about 3:20 a.m. when Nash was driving the SUV with Van Lee Johnson, 53, of Amarillo. They were heading west on I-40 when the vehicle crossed into the median and returned to the westbound lane. He overcorrected and the vehicle skid back into the median before…

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