Source: GrahamLeader.com

Source: KXII.com

An Oklahoma Highway Patrolman is out of the hospital after an accident Wednesday night.

OHP says a car traveling west turned in front of Trooper Rocky Northcutt, who was headed eastbound to respond to an accident call Wednesday evening on Highway 70 in Lone Grove.

The driver of the car was cited with failure to stop and taken to the hospital.

Both Trooper Northcutt and the other driver were checked out for minor injuries and released.

OHP says the accident caused about $8,000 worth of damage to the trooper’s car.

Nine children and two adults were injured in an accident involving two Irving ISD school buses this afternoon on Stemmons Freeway in northwest Dallas.

None of the children from T.J. Lee Elementary School was seriously injured, said Abby Knagg, a spokeswoman for Dallas County Schools.

“They might be a little shaken up, but everybody appears to be OK,” she said.

The children were taken to Children’s Medical Center Dallas and both drivers were taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital.

The accident occurred about 2 p.m. when one bus rear-ended the other on southbound Interstate 35E just north of Royal Lane.

The 85 students were on their way back to school from a field trip to Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Center.

The accident caused delays on I-35E this afternoon.

A two-car accident in west Houston early Saturday left one man dead and another person injured, authorities said.

A man driving a silver Dodge Stratus was pulling out of a parking lot in the 2200 block of South Highway 6 around 1:15 a.m. when a silver Toyota Tacoma traveling south struck the Stratus on the driver’s side, authorities said.

The driver of the Stratus died at the scene. His identity is pending an autopsy by the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office. The driver of the Tacoma was taken to an area hospital, authorities said.

Further information, including the driver’s condition, wasn’t immediately available. The case is still under investigation.

Two cars collided on Loop 287 Friday afternoon when a man suspected of speeding hit a woman who pulled out in front of him, police said.

Both vehicles came to a screeching halt in a muddy median of Ellen Trout Drive and Sayers Street, congesting traffic as passersby stopped to inspect the damage.

Lufkin Police officers inspect an accident scene after two cars collided at Sayers Street and Loop 287 on Friday afternoon.
 
Shortly after 3:15 p.m. Ashley Dorsey, 24, of Lufkin, was trying to cross the loop in a white Toyota Corolla while travelling south on Sayers Street when she struck a silver Pontiac Grand Am driven by Byron Ingram, 20, of Lufkin, police said. Inside the Pontiac was Ingram’s friend, Vinson Barry, 19, of Lufkin. No injuries were reported. Both cars sustained severe damage to the front end and sides.

Lufkin Police Officer Eddie Ibarra said that just before the wreck he was about to pull over Ingram for suspicion of speeding on the loop and had just turned around to begin pursuit when he saw the two cars had crashed.

“I saw (Dorsey) standing by her car and I though ‘Oh Lord, she was ejected,’ but luckily she had just gotten herself out,” he said.

Officer Ibarra said that despite the fact that Ingram may have been speeding, Dorsey failed to yield right of way as she crossed the freeway, incurring responsibility for the wreck.

“I was coming out of the intersection and I didn’t see a car when I came out,” Dorsey said. “It all happened so fast and it’s hard to say either way.”

All parties got rides home after tow trucks took the wrecked cars away.

A Euless woman says her husband died last month near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport while Fort Worth and airport officials tried to determine who was responsible for sending an ambulance.

“My husband had a fighting chance, but they were more worried about jurisdiction,” said Debbie Nix, whose husband, Tom Nix, 50, apparently suffered a heart attack as he drove to his job at the airport on the morning of Oct. 6.

His truck struck a guardrail and came to rest on “a piece of no man’s land” along State Highway 183 between the airport and Fort Worth, Ms. Nix said. A motorist found him and called 911.

“It sounds like he waited an extremely long time and no one came,” Ms. Nix said. “There’s no excuse for no one being on the scene as quickly as possible.”

The place where Mr. Nix’s truck stopped was in Fort Worth’s emergency response area, according to a written statement issued Friday by D/FW Airport.

Fort Worth officials are investigating the incident, according to an e-mail sent by Lt. Paul Henderson, a police spokesman. He wrote that another traffic accident in the area and an unclear location given to 911 operators may have confused dispatchers.

“Also investigating if dfw police were on the scene and why their ambulance service was not either dispatched or did not respond,” the e-mail stated.

But according to the D/FW statement, the airport’s public safety department “responded immediately and appropriately” and was told by Fort Worth dispatchers that an ambulance was headed to the scene.

On tapes of the 911 calls, dispatchers sound confused about the location of the accident. The tapes were obtained by Ms. Nix and her two daughters, Rachel Handy, 24, and Meredith Sebastian, 26.

An airport 911 operator took the initial call at 5:03 a.m., according to the tape. “There’s a jurisdiction thing,” the operator is heard telling the caller, who said he was coming from State Highway 360 and was near the airport’s south entrance.

The call was transferred to a Fort Worth dispatcher, who said that she was aware of an accident at Highway 360 and Trinity Boulevard and that an ambulance was on the way.

Later, airport dispatchers called Fort Worth again, saying that “the subject is unconscious with shallow breathing.” The Fort Worth dispatchers still seemed to believe that Mr. Nix was at Highway 360 and Trinity Boulevard. At that point, airport dispatchers gave their Fort Worth counterparts the correct location of Mr. Nix’s accident: along Highway 183 between Amon Carter Boulevard and International Parkway.

At 5:20 a.m., an airport dispatcher placed another call to Fort Worth, saying there was a “possible fatality.” The airport dispatcher asked when the ambulance sent by Fort Worth would arrive.

“Step it up. Make it a priority call,” the airport dispatcher said.

“It is a priority call, but we’re not going to speed in the rain,” a Fort Worth dispatcher responded.

One minute after that – and 18 minutes after the initial 911 call – an airport ambulance arrived at the scene and eventually took Mr. Nix to a nearby hospital, D/FW Airport records show.

Mr. Nix, a supervisor for the Transportation Safety Administration, was dead by the time his family arrived at the hospital, Ms. Nix said. She said that the family does not know whether the ambulance purportedly sent by Fort Worth ever arrived.

Ms. Nix has planned a protest for today at the spot where her husband of 31 years crashed.

“With today’s technology, there’s no excuse for this, and I don’t want it to happen again,” she said.

Ms. Nix said she doesn’t know which jurisdiction should have taken responsibility in her husband’s case, but she believes the situation needs to be corrected before someone else suffers.

“He’s probably not the first person to have problems there,” she said. “But we’d like him to be the last one.”

Two police officers working an accident west of Dallas Love Field were shot at early Friday morning.

The incident happened on Interstate 35E near the Empire Central exit in the southbound lanes.

Seven or eight shots were fired, according to broadcast reports.

The officers were not injured in the 2 a.m. shooting. Two men in the vehicle were stopped shortly after the incident and were taken into custody, according to Dallas police.

The men, who are described as being in their 20s, were being questioned by police.

A semi-automatic weapon was found in the car when it was stopped, according to Dallas police.

No children where hurt in an accident involving a car and a San Elizario Independent School District bus carrying students from Alarcon Elementary in the Lower Valley.
San Elizario officials said only the driver of the car suffered injuries.

The district has informed parents to pick up their children at the site of the accident, but a second school bus will be dispatched to the site of the accident to take the remaining children home.

The rain was pouring in Montgomery County on Tuesday afternoon when a teenage girl driving home from school crossed the center line on the road.  She crashed into a pickup truck.

According to authorities, the 17-year-old Montgomery High School student was killed instantly.

The Houston Chronicle has identified her as Sara Jane Hartnett.