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It appears the Houston area has lost yet another victim to drunk driving. Channel 13 News is reporting that a motorcyclist pulled over by police was killed last night when another vehicle hit his motorbike. The accident happened around 1:30am on the South Freeway near Yellowstone. An HPD officer pulled over the motorcycle on the feeder road and pulled him over on suspicion of running red lights. The motorcyclist pulled over and stopped at a narrow one lane entrance ramp: that’s when the driver of a blue Chevrolet pickup truck sideswiped the HPD patrol car and struck the motorbike and rider. The motorcycle rider died at the scene. Police say they were about to instruct the motorcyclist to pull over somewhere safer when the crash happened. The driver of the pickup was taken to Ben Taub to be treated for minor injuries: police say his blood alcohol level was above the legal limit for intoxication, so he will face drunk driving charges (probably for intoxication manslaughter). Channel 13’s article states no police officers were injured in the accident.

An early morning crash Tuesday on Boone Road at Beechnut Street nearly took a turn for the worse but for a guardrail preventing a pickup truck from plunging into a bayou. The white-colored Ford Ranger pickup truck was hauling a trailer and traveling southbound on Boone Road when the driver veered the truck into oncoming traffic and caused it to crash into the rear of another pickup truck. The truck then crashed into a guardrail that was over a bayou. Firefighters had to cut through the truck to rescue the driver. Both drivers involved in the accident were taken to hospital for treatment. FOX News’ story is here.

A school bus driving on FM 2100 in Huffman today was involved in a head-on crash with a pickup truck. The accident scene is FM 2100 at 1st street. Kids traveling on the school bus were attended to by paramedics and the driver of the pickup truck was taken to hospital via life flight helicopter. Three or four of the children on the school bus were taken to hospital as a precaution. From a still photograph on Channel 13’s web site it appears the pickup truck may have attempted to make a left turn in front of the school bus, though the exact cause of the crash has not been reported in the media. Hopefully all involved will recovery quickly. Channel 2’s report of the school bus accident is here.