Accidents

January 15, 2023 - A suspected intoxicated driver was arrested Sunday evening after crashing through a fence of a neighboring property and slammed into the Calvary Pentecostal Church of God located at 912 Tidwell in north Houston just after 7:30 p.m. According to Reverend Mark Cox, a woman was taken to the hospital after a pole impaled her shoulder. A teenager and a child were also outside when the accident happened but they escaped without any injuries. There were about 15 people inside the church at the time. The driver was going about 50-60 mph when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the church. He was arrested for suspicion of intoxication according to Rev. Cox.

November 26, 2022 - The Houston Police Department can now add a white SUV to their long list of vehicles that have fled the scene. https://www.youtube.com/embed/H1Uj9a1J-vA The accident happened at 11:42 p.m. in the 600 block of Jefferson Street at Smith Street when a white SUV traveling eastbound on Jefferson decided that red lights were not worth waiting at. Very often we see drivers running a red light a couple of seconds after the light has turned green for the other drivers that have the right of way. This happens so often that many of us decide to wait a couple of seconds before proceeding through our very own green light, legally. Sometimes, that couple of seconds is not enough. The white SUV in the video that caused the accident traveled through the intersection near...

November 26, 2022 - A woman driver was killed early Saturday morning after going the wrong way on two different Houston freeways. A Harris County Constable saw her going the wrong way on the Hardy Toll Road and tried to get her attention by driving alongside on the opposite side of the freeway, in the correct direction. Police say she never noticed the Constable trying to get her attention and she ended up traveling a good distance. She ended up colliding with another driver in the 8100 block of the North Loop East Freeway (610) between Wayside and N. McCarty around 1:50 a.m. This is about 5 miles east of where the Hardy Toll Road and 610 meet and is on the northeast side of Houston. The driver that the woman collided with was a male traveling in a sedan. He was taken to a local...

A lawsuit has been filed against a Houston car dealer by a daughter whose mother was tragically killed when her car stalled out on I-45 and was subsequently rear-ended by a tractor-trailer. The lawsuit claims the dealership improperly installed the wrong car battery. According to court documents, Brenda Patterson (the mother) was in Dallas and decided to come down to Houston on December 26, 2018, to complete the purchase of the vehicle after her son-in-law helped negotiate a price on a Honda Accord on Gillman Honda's lot. As employees at Gillman started to prepare the vehicle for pick-up, they found that the car would not start. It was determined that the battery had to be replaced since the vehicle was sitting in the lot for over a year. The employees ended up installing a small...

The first of these three accidents occurred when a motorcycle and a Chevy Equinox collided in the 700 block of Little York, near Airline St. in north Houston. First responders were dispatched around 12:45 a.m. to the accident. The biker was pronounced deceased at the scene when paramedics with the Houston Fire Department found the biker near the passenger front wheel of the Equinox, several yards from where the motorcycle came to rest. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y7KqRP3PZTY As bars started to close at 2 a.m., first responders were notified of another motorcycle in the 1900 block of Allen Pkwy, near Taft St. This one involved a pickup truck that came to rest after hitting a light pole and the motorcyclist. The driver of this pickup truck fled the scene. Police canvassed the a...

October 11, 2022 - A cyclist was killed after falling into the lane of an oncoming car in the Montrose District of Houston during a 'Pride Ride' just before 8 p.m. in the 2200 block of W. Dallas. Police say a vehicle struck him, then ran him over as the driver fled the scene. https://www.youtube.com/embed/FnQm_RwPHI8 According to Sgt. David Rose of the Houston Police Department, the cyclist, a caucasian male in his forties lost control of his bicycle and fell into a lane in front of the vehicle that ended up striking him. The driver then tried to leave the scene at a high rate of speed. As the driver accelerated, the tire ran over the cyclist again. The cyclist was taken to a local hospital and was pronounced deceased a short time later. Other cyclists riding in the group, trie...