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Police say the man was riding on horseback in the Crosby area when the collision occurred. August 14, 2018 – 11:20 pm: A man on horseback was injured and his horse was killed when he was hit by a Toyota Corolla late on Tuesday night. The 24-year-old was injured along U.S. 90 in the Crosby area. An officer on the scene report[...]

News reports state that the victim was life-flighted to Houston after a car backed into his path, leading to the crash. August 14, 2018 – 5:55 pm: A man in Lufkin was seriously injured when a Dodge Challenger backed into his path on Tuesday evening. The accident took place at the 2200 block of Atkinson Drive in Lufkin. Accor[...]

A fatal crash on FM 1960 involving at least two or three vehicles left one man dead last Friday, August 10th, 2018, just after 6:30 a.m. The incident occurred at FM 1960 and I-45 and resulted in a closure and major delays on westbound 1960. The crash forced drivers to use the I-45 frontage road as an alternate route. FM 1960 h[...]

A man in a wheelchair was hit by an 18-wheeler on I-10 and Federal Road outbound last Thursday, August 9th, 2018, at around 3:20 p.m. The man was promptly taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital by paramedics with the Houston Fire Department. Investigators said he suffered from poor eyesight and was struck by the left rear tires of [...]

Police report the man was ejected and killed after he intentionally crashed his vehicle into the rear end of a woman’s car. August 13, 2018 – 1:00 am: A man was killed on the Gulf Freeway service road near Airport Boulevard after intentionally crashing his white pickup into another vehicle he was following. According to th[...]

August 13, 2018: Adonna Townsend of Keene, Texas was arrested for the death of her roommate’s 2-month-old child. The incident took place this May, on the 500 block of South College Drive in Keene. Adonna Townsend was babysitting her roommate’s baby while the child’s mother was out of town. At the time, authorities respon[...]

News reports say that Karisma James of El Paso was a nurse and an Army Veteran. August 13, 2018: Kharisma James was struck by a car and killed outside El Paso’s Tippin Elementary School just after school let out on Monday afternoon. The 33-year-old was trying to save three children who were in the path of the car. The childre[...]

HPD reports that they don’t know why the man was trying to cross the freeway when he was struck by a pickup truck Monday night. August 13, 2018 – 9:30 pm: A pedestrian on I-45 was struck and killed by a Chevrolet Silverado on Monday night. The accident took place shortly after the Houston Police Department received a re[...]

News reports state that Juan Manuel Flores III was trying to help the driver of a broken-down Dodge Charger at the time of the accident. August 12, 2018 – 3:30 am: A 24-year-old man was killed while attempting to help a stranded motorist on the outbound North Freeway at the North Loop on Sunday morning. Four vehicles were in[...]

Harris County Sheriff’s Office reports that they have arrested the driver, an alleged burglar whose accomplice was killed in the crash. August 11, 2018: Michael Shelton allegedly caused a crash that led to the death of his accomplice after burglarizing a house in the Humble area. After allegedly stealing a microwave and a nu[...]

Two vehicles in high-speed race collide, leading to death of one driver. August 11, 2018 – 5:00 am: In a crash believed to be caused by alcohol and high-speed racing, one driver was killed early on Saturday morning on eastbound Interstate 10 near Normandy. It is believed that both drivers were under the influence of alcohol [...]

Driver charged with intoxication manslaughter after allegedly causing fatal accident on East Freeway. August 11, 2018 – 3:05 am: The driver of a white GMC Arcadia was thrown from the vehicle and killed early Saturday morning on the 12950 block of East Freeway, near Greens Bayou. The Arcadia driver was pronounced dead at the [...]

Police also found 3 other victims injured in the explosion caused by a pocket of gas. August 9, 2018 – 10:00 am: A Midland County home exploded Thursday morning, leading to the tragic death of 3-year-old Delaye Tercero on the afternoon of Saturday, August 11. The explosion happened at East County Road 150, about half a mile [...]

A fatal pedestrian collision occurred on Barker Cypress near Canyon Cypress at around 2:15 a.m. on Monday,  August 6th. The male pedestrian was walking along the road when he was struck by a red Dodge pick-up truck. The impact with the truck threw him into the right lane, where he was struck a second time by an oncoming Jeep.[...]

A five-vehicle crash on State Highway 36 near Long Lane claimed two lives on the evening of August 5, according to the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office. The five-car pileup began with a head-on collision between a pickup truck and a Ford Explorer. The drivers of the two colliding vehicles were both killed in the crash. In add[...]

According to MySA, a major accident in South Houston resulted in the death of a female driver on Thursday, August 2, 2018. August 2, 2018 - 2 am: A woman was driving her Volkswagen Beetle Convertible east between 9th and 10th Streets on Spencer Highway – a few blocks west of S. Allen-Genoa Road. The South Houston Police Depar[...]

Authorities report that a man drove his car into a moving train in East Houston, causing the vehicle to flip over on impact. August 1, 2018 – 11:30 pm:  A man was injured Wednesday night after his large SUV collided with a moving train at a railroad crossing at East Little York and Mesa. A witness to the accident said that t[...]

On Wednesday (August 1, 2018), near Midland, Texas, three separate ruptures occurred in the area where two gas pipelines crossed paths. These ruptures led to a series of serious explosions that resulted in injuries to seven people. According to the Texas Railroad Commission, the regulatory authority of pipelines within the stat[...]