James Carr and Lashun Russell Die in Dallas Crash

Two people were killed and several others injured after a three-vehicle accident in southeast Dallas on Monday. The incident happened at around 9:30 p.m. on the intersection of Military Parkway and Jim Miller Road. A Ford F-150 pickup truck driven by Leodegario Hernandez Juarez, 34, of Irving, ran a red light at the intersection and crashed into two other cars. After impact, one of the cars was wrapped around a metal utility pole. James Carr, 49, and Lashun Russell, 43, both from Dallas, died from injuries sustained in the crash. Other victims were treated at Baylor Medical Center and Children's…

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A teenager was fatally struck while walking in Atascosa County by a car whose driver fled early Sunday. Samantha Garza, 18, was attending a Halloween party Saturday night dressed as Batman when she was walking on FM 476 near Adcock Road and got hit by a Pontiac G6 which then fled the scene. Department of Public Safety Trooper Jeffrey Denman said a passer-by on the poorly lit road spotted Garza's body and called 911. There were no witnesses to the hit-and-run. Garza was pronounced dead at the scene at around 4 a.m. Sunday. The victim recently graduated from Southside High…

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A 19-year veteran of the San Antonio Police Department is in critical condition after an off-duty motorcycle crash in Selma on Monday. According to San Antonio police spokesman Sgt. Javier Salazar, 44-year-old Gary Donivan was transported to San Antonio Military Medical Center and was being treated for major head trauma following an accident which occurred near the FM 1518 exit. Donivan was riding his motorcycle around 2:30 p.m. heading north on Interstate 35, said City of Selma spokesman Johnny Casias. Preliminary reports indicated that the victim possibly clipped a vehicle he was trying to pass, causing the bike to crash.…

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A one-vehicle crash in Rockdale early Sunday morning claimed the life of an Oklahoma man. At approximately 12:55 a.m., a 2000 Toyota pickup truck was travelling in a southeast direction along FM 487 when the driver lost control of the vehicle and left the roadway. The pickup truck then skid sideways causing it to overturn. The driver, identified as Travis Dera Darling, 22, of Morrison, OK, was pronounced dead at the scene just before 2 a.m. by Milam County Justice of the Peace Andy Isaacs. Department of Public Safety said Darling was not wearing a seat belt at the time…

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A woman was found dead at the scene of an accident early Sunday morning near Centerville. The victim, identified as Roxane Dooley, was driving on Highway 7 west of Centerville when she veered off the road and crashed into a tree. Authorities said Dooley was pronounced dead at the scene. She was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident.

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An investigator at the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office was killed in an off-duty motorcycle crash early Sunday morning in Katy. According to Katy police, two investigators were riding a motorcycle on an Interstate 10 feeder road in the Houston suburb of Katy when the motorcycle hit a curb and then skid. Shelley Nicodemus, 45, the passenger, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver, Moses Perez, sustained head and back injuries. He was transported to a hospital where he underwent surgery and is in stable condition. Nicodemus has been with the sheriff's office in Fort Bend County, located in…

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A teenager who stopped to help after a car crash early Sunday morning on I-35 in Fort Worth was killed after he was struck by a suspected drunk driver. It was 2:45 a.m. when Joshua Kaluzniak, 17, of Grandview, along with other passers-by stopped at the scene of a traffic accident where two southbound vehicles collided with an abandoned car near I-35 West and Rosedale Street. According to Fort Worth police, Kaluzniak was on the shoulder of the interstate trying to wave passing vehicles out of the way when a black Lexus sedan struck one of the helpers’ parked cars,…

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An Evadale woman was killed when she was hit by a car on Texas 62 early Monday morning. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, 27-year-old Jana Nicole Fachorn was pronounced dead on the scene by Justice of the Peace Becky Cleveland. The incident happened when Fachorn was standing in the northbound lane of Texas 62 and a 1995 Ford Mustang heading north struck her. The driver of the Ford Mustang was uninjured. The accident is pending investigation. No charges are expected to be filed.

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An afternoon motorcycle crash in the 400 block of south Fort Hood Street left a Fort Hood soldier dead on Sunday. Killeen police said that at approximately 2 p.m., Fort Hood soldier, Timothy Laurence Singletary, was riding a motorcycle heading north on south Fort Hood St. just north of Hallmark when he crashed into a white Dodge Charger, which was pulling out of a parking lot in the 400 block of the street. The car attempted to make a left turn to go south when the bike struck the rear of the Charger near the center turn lane. Upon impact,…

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A man died and his teenage daughter was seriously injured following a motorcycle accident on U.S. 67 near Stephenville Sunday night. The fatal accident occurred at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday, about three miles south of Stephenville. Miguel Angel Licea, 37, of Comanche, was riding a 2005 Yamaha with his 15-year-old daughter, Heather Licea, heading south on U.S. 67 when they slammed into an eastbound 1996 Chevrolet pickup. The motorcycle hit the driver side of the truck, the Texas Department of Public Safety reported. Miguel was pronounced dead on the scene. Heather was transported to Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort…

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