Constable Mark Vojvodich Crashes into Car During Pursuit

A Bexar County Constable crashed into another vehicle along Interstate 35 while pursuing a driver of an alleged stolen motorcycle. Precinct 3 Constable Mark Vojvodich attempted to stop a driver of a motorcycle with no clear markings. The motorcyclist fled and the chase began at Loop 410 and Perrin Beitel at about 1.pm. Thursday. Vojvodich continued into I-35's southbound lanes, where he smashed a Dodge Avenger traveling in an adjacent lane. The patrol vehicle and the Avenger both spun. The Avenger careened off a guardrail and struck a Chrysler PT Cruiser. The crash caused a pileup along I- 35. The…

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A Rio Grande Valley lawmaker was hurt in a vehicular accident that totaled his car Thursday morning in Austin. Texas State Rep. Rene Oliveira, D-Brownsville, was rushed to University Medical Center at Brackenridge following the crash and is expected be to OK. Austin police said the incident involving a red truck and a white Sedan occurred just before 11 a.m. at 11th and Lavaca streets. The wreck happened near the Capitol and the veteran lawmaker sustained minor injuries in the neck and shoulders. Another person involved in the crash was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. It is…

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A teenager is facing multiple charges after running his SUV through a stop sign, crashing into a house and fled the scene. The incident happened Wednesday morning when 17-year-old Bill Clinton Orozco-Garcia of Bryan was driving a Chevrolet Tahoe and ran a stop sign at the intersection of University Oaks Boulevard and Scarlett O'Hara. He then barrelled through a backyard and slammed into the back of a home on Magnolia Drive. College Station police said that Orozco-Garcia fled the scene without any information. But with some description of his SUV, officers were able to find him at an apartment on…

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A two-vehicle crash Wednesday morning on West Port Arthur Road claimed the life of a Borger man. Ronald Dwayne Thomas, 63, was driving a 2012 Chevrolet truck heading north on West Port Arthur Road when his vehicle rear-ended a 2007 Mack truck, which was attempting to make a left turn. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, Thomas died at 7:56 a.m. at Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital. The driver of the Mack truck, a Beaumont man, was uninjured in the collision.

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A driver of a car was pronounced dead on the scene after crashing his car into a tractor-trailer in East Brunswick Township Tuesday evening. The fatal wreck occurred at about 9:05 p.m. on Route 895, about a half-mile east of Keim Street. A 2008 Volkswagen was travelling east on Route 895 when it crossed into the westbound lane, smashing into the front bumper of the oncoming 2007 Freightliner tractor-trailer. Police said the car was pushed westward after impact and started to turn counter-clockwise while the truck continued west. The truck went into the eastbound lane, hitting guide rails on the…

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A Conroe woman was killed in an auto-pedestrian accident in Willis early Tuesday morning. Willis police department said a vehicle was traveling eastbound near the intersection of FM 1097 and Business Park Drive at about 1 a.m. when the driver struck 42-year-old Ginger Lynn Scheibele. The driver, Roy Atkinson, 30, of Willis, had difficulty seeing Scheibele as she was wearing a black T-shirt and dark jeans. Scheibele was killed upon impact. Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace Lanny Moriarty ordered an autopsy and the victim’s body was taken to Montgomery County Forensic Center in Conroe. Alcohol may not be a…

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Two people died Monday night in a wrong-way crash in Harrison County. Texarkana DPS identified the victims as Tysheliamie Jordan, 45, of Marshall and Ricardo Gonzalez, 23, of Longview. The fatal collision occurred when Jordan was going the wrong way heading south on Loop 281. She slammed head-on into Gonzalez’s vehicle, who was heading north. Gonzalez's vehicle caught fire. The deadly wreck is under investigation.

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Three people are dead and two are injured following a head-on collision in Port Lavaca Monday afternoon. The accident happened at approximately 1:51 p.m. on state Highway 185 near the Ineos Plant. Trooper Gerald Bryant, spokesman of the Texas Department of Public Safety said a southbound silver 2003 Honda Pilot crossed the median and struck head-on into an oncoming white Ford King Ranch heavy-duty pickup. Upon impact, the Honda Pilot burst into flames and came to rest in a ditch. The pickup overturned on its right side. The three people in the Honda Pilot were pronounced dead at the scene.…

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A 78-year-old man was killed in an all-terrain vehicle rollover accident in Brazos County Monday afternoon. Brazos County Sheriff's Office chief deputy Jim Stewart said that at about 4p.m., Morris Endler of Kurten was found by his wife trapped under his ATV at the bottom of an embankment on their 9-acre property off Texas 21 east of Kurten. "[The] ATV appeared to have rolled off the bank of their stock pond," Stewart said. "The stock pond is down about four or five feet from the bank." Endler’s son, Mike, said his father had owned the four-wheeler for about three years…

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A 62-year-old man trapped overnight in his pickup truck in a creek bed in Waco was rescued Tuesday afternoon. Donald Bessire of Waco was driving his 2003 Chevy S-10 pickup truck at about 8:45 Monday night when the accident happened on Interstate 35 near the Pilot Truck Stop on the south side of Waco. He lost control of the vehicle, sending it off the road and down an embankment into a creek. He was initially knocked unconscious but regained consciousness. Bessire could not get out from the vehicle as the doors were jammed from the accident. The truck remained upright…

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