Police are investigating a car accident that killed a man in northwest Harris County early Saturday.

An unidentified man was driving west in the 20400 block of the Northwest Freeway frontage road and began entering the freeway on-ramp around 6 a.m. when the vehicle swerved back toward the feeder road, authorities said.

The vehicle then struck the guardrail, rolling onto its right side and throwing the driver, who was not wearing a seatbelt, from the vehicle, authorities said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene and his identity is pending an autopsy by the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Houston, Texas police are investigating a one-car accident in which the driver was killed as he exited the Gulf Freeway late Thursday.

The driver of a gold Cadillac Escalade was southbound on Interstate 45 South about 11:40 p.m. when he exited at Fuqua and lost control of the sport-utility vehicle, police said.

The Escalade hit a curb, rolled over and partially ejected the driver, investigators said. He was pronounced dead at Ben Taub General Hospital.

A woman riding with him was not injured, officers said.

The man’s name was withheld pending notification of his family.

A Weatherford, Texas woman died less than a mile south of Whitt in a one-car rollover crash.

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, Loraine Baldwin, 76, was pronounced dead on the scene by LifeCare paramedics shortly after 3 p.m.

DPS reported Baldwin was not wearing a seatbelt as she traveled north on FM 52. State Trooper Garrett Webb, who investigated the scene, stated in a preliminary report that Baldwin failed to negotiate a curve, lost control and veered off of the road, overturned and was ejected from her 1996 Mercury. The report went on to state the vehicle came to rest on its wheels with Baldwin underneath.

She was taken to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office in Fort Worth.

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A Bedford, Texas woman, Christina Steele, has been charged with intoxication manslaughter after a man on a motorcycle was killed in an October wreck in Grapevine.

Her Honda Civic did not have its lights on when it came to rest in the 5300 block of the highway, police said. Minutes later, as Steele stood outside her vehicle, Mark Askew, 27, of Justin, Texas crashed into her car, Dearing said.

Askew, who was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Steele was taken to Baylor Medical Center at Grapevine and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. A toxicology test showed her blood alcohol level to be 0.14 at the time of the accident, police said.

Steele, 33, was arrested Friday and booked into the Grapevine city jail. She has since been released on $5,000 bond.  

If convicted, she could face up to 20 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.

Two people were hurt when an elevator car quickly fell two floors in the 717 Texas building in Houston.

“It went down like a rock,” said Allan Keel, one of two people in the elevator in the building at Texas and Milam. “It shook the elevator — a bunch of stuff came off the ceiling.”

Keel, president of Crimson Exploration, said he injured his back. Carleen Naumann, a Besco Tubular saleswoman who had a business appointment with Keel at Crimson Exploration’s offices in the building, said she fell down, injuring her ankle and back.

The incident happened about 2 p.m.

Keel and Naumann declined treatment from emergency medical technicians. Both said they were leery to get back on an elevator, but did enter another car - they didn’t want to walk down 25 floors.

“If we went down from 25, we would have been messed up,” Naumann said.

A 22-year-old man died this weekend after being involved in a two-vehicle accident, Dallas police said.

Adam Mason of Southlake died at Medical City Dallas Hospital after being involved in an accident in the 5100 block of Alpha Road, near the Galleria Dallas shopping center, about 10 a.m. Sunday, police said.

According to police, Mason was driving north on Dallas Parkway when he was struck by a Dodge truck that ran a red light at the Alpha Road intersection. The truck hit another vehicle before coming to a stop.

Marc Wright, 27, of Terrell, the driver of the Dodge truck, was not arrested or ticketed, Lt. Scott Bratcher said. Police do not believe alcohol was involved in the wreck. 

The case will likely be referred to a Dallas County grand jury, Bratcher said.

A 30-year-old Arlington woman faces a charge of intoxication manslaughter after a two-vehicle accident over the weekend left one person dead.

According to police, Erica Kolanowski ran a red light at the intersection of Southwest Green Oaks Boulevard and Cooper Street and struck a Dodge Avenger about 11:20 p.m. Sunday.

The Avenger’s 20-year-old passenger, Joshua Thomas Carter, was pronounced dead at the scene. The Avenger’s driver, Matthew Lundy, 21, of Arlington, was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth where he was listed in critical condition this morning.

Kolanowski, who also faces a charge of intoxication assault, was hospitalized and listed in fair condition, police said.

Earlier this morning, Arlington police had incorrectly identified Lundy as the driver charged in the incident.

Excessive speeding was likely the cause of a fiery collision that killed five people and injured two others, authorities said.

The driver of a Chevrolet Cobalt was driving on a state highway in Magnolia at “an extremely high rate of speed” when it collided with a Toyota van Saturday, authorities said.

“The driver of the van probably never saw it coming,” said Department of Public Safety Sgt. Angela Fountain.

Four of the five family members traveling in the van were killed. They were identified as: Donald Lee Sexton, 60, of College Station; Curtis Charles Edwards, 78, of Pinehurst; Catherine C. Edwards, 83; and Lloyd Alvin Edwards, 83, of Salina, Okla.

“This is devastating for this family,” Fountain said.

Another van passenger, 59-year-old Karla Kay Sexton of College Station, was in serious condition at Memorial Hermann Hospital-The Medical Center on Sunday afternoon, hospital spokeswoman Alejandra Rodriguez said.

Kayla Pratorius, 18, of Magnolia, was a front seat passenger in the Cobalt and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of the Cobalt was 22-year-old Brandon Lee Ferguson of Magnolia. He was in critical condition Sunday afternoon at Memorial Hermann Hospital-The Medical Center, Rodriguez said.

Fountain said that the investigation is ongoing and they are trying to determine the Cobalt’s speed at the time of impact.