Baytown Crash at Noon:
On Wednesday around noon, a three-vehicle crashed linked to speeding in Baytown took one life and injured 4 others. A driver in a silver Pontiac was witnessed weaving through traffic on Highway 146 at a high rate of speed when he apparently lost control of his car. He careened across the highway’s center line and struck an oncoming Lincoln head-on.
An approaching FedEx truck tried to avoid the deadly crash, but ended up hitting the Lincoln. The 3 businessmen inside the Lincoln had multiple serious injuries and needed to be airlifted to the hospital. The FedEx truck driver had an injured leg from the wreck. The driver of the speeding Pontiac did not survive and his car was virtually obliterated by the high speed wreck. Our Harris County fatal crash attorneys note that a concerned veterinarian and other medical professionals form a vet’s office near where the deadly crash took place reportedly helped to stabilize the injured until emergency rescue could arrive. (Andy Cerota and Matt Aufdenspring, KPRC click2houston.com, 12/18/13)
Houston Fatal Crash at 8 p.m.:
Later the same day at about 8 p.m., a teen driver lost control of a Ford pickup truck and ended in a deadly rollover crash. Police say that speed might have been a cause of the wreck at Antoine near Hammerly. The pickup truck hit a curb and then tripped into a roll. Two teens, 18 and 13, were ejected from the truck while another teen, 16, remained inside.
The 16-year-old died at the scene of the wreck. Houston investigators said they hadn’t determined which of the teens was actually driving the truck at the time of the wreck. (Mike Glenn, Houston Chronicle, 12/18/13) We caution that deadly rollover wrecks are actually a common outcome of the crashes that occur when drivers lose control and strike vehicles or fixed objects at high speed.
Harris County’s Speed Related Wrecks are the Deadliest in the State
Harris County actually has hundreds fewer crashes caused by speeding than Dallas County. It also has fewer speed related wrecks than Bexar County. And only slightly more than Travis County. But our Harris County fatal crash attorneys point out that our county in 2012 had considerably more fatalities from those speed related crashes than any other county in Texas. When Harris County has a fatal crash caused by speeding, it tends to present an egregious example of how excessive speed lead to fatal wrecks, as in the Baytown wreck Wednesday at noon. Click the link to read about the disproportionate number of speed related crash fatalities in Harris County.
The Harris County fatal crash attorneys at Denena Points, PC express their condolences to the families and friends of those killed in these two devastating speeding wrecks. And we wish the injured victims rapid and complete recoveries from their injuries.