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• Teen hit by car in far north Tarrant, taken to JPS
  Jan 17, 2012

  A teen-ager was seriously injured this morning after he was hit by a vehicle on a street in an unincorporated area of far north Tarrant County, a Tarrant County official said.
  The 18-year-old was taken by helicopter ambulance to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth.
  The accident occurred shortly before 8:30 a.m. in the 9300 block of Ray White Road, near Wall-Price Road.
  The driver of the vehicle was a 39-year-old woman. She stopped after the accident.
  Tarrant County Sheriff Department spokesman Terry Grisham said that investigators were on the scene, trying to determine what had happened.
  The teen was a student at Keller Central High School, which is less than a half-mile from the accident scene.
  Some teachers witnessed the accident and stayed with the student until the ambulance arrived.
  

  
  Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/01/17/3664997/teen-hit-by-car-in-far-north-tarrant.html#storylink=cpy

• Parker County wreck kills 2 teens
  Dec 30, 2011

  Two Parker County teenagers were killed and two were seriously injured in a fiery crash early Thursday near Springtown.Joshua James Brown, 18, of Weatherford and Alex Christian, 14, of Aledo were killed when the Dodge pickup they were in veered off a road, crashed into a house and burst into flames. Authorities said they believe that Brown was driving.
  
  Halston "Hoss" McCue, 15, and Madelyne Mitchell, 13, both of Weatherford, were burned in the crash and remained in hospitals Thursday.The pickup and the house were destroyed by the fire. Three people who were inside the house escaped injury, authorities said.McCue was taken by helicopter ambulance to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. Mitchell was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. Hospital officials did not release any information on their conditions.The wreck occurred about 12:05 a.m. Thursday when the driver of the pickup, which was eastbound on Midway Road, lost control and veered off the road, hitting several concrete posts and community mailboxes before crashing into the house in the 100 block of Hyde Away Lane, said Texas Department of Public Safety trooper Lonny Haschel."We're looking at speed being a factor in the crash," Haschel said Thursday.McCue's friend Garrett Gaines said McCue told him that Brown lost control of the truck when he swerved to miss another car."That's why they ran off the road," Gaines said. "He didn't say how fast they were going."Eric Vinson, chief of Parker County Emergency Services District No. 1, said a firefighter who lives across the street was the first to arrive at the site.Vinson said three victims were outside the pickup when Capt. Walt Moore of Station 51 in La Junta arrived."He started treating the victims," Vinson said. "All but one was out of the vehicle. The driver was still in the vehicle. It's possible that the passengers got out on their own. I don't know."Vinson said firefighters from La Junta and Springtown put out the fire by 2:30 a.m.Facebook pages were filled with prayers for the teens who survived and condolences for the two who died.
  

• Fort Worth man dies of injuries suffered in Arlington crash
  Dec 01, 2011

  A Fort Worth man died early Thursday, a little more than a day after he was injured in a traffic accident, Arlington police said.

  Jose Reyes, 23, died at 1:16 a.m. at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office. He suffered multiple blunt force injuries.

  Two others were injured in the crash, which occurred about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 1500 block of North Cooper Street. Their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.

  Reyes was driving a Volkswagen Jetta south on Cooper and an Acura was traveling north on the same street, Arlington police reports say.

  Reyes turned left toward Road to Six Flags and was hit by the Acura, Arlington police said.

  Neither alcohol nor drugs contributed to the accident, according to preliminary reports.

  It was the 35th traffic fatality in Arlington this year.

  
  Source: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/12/01/3564253/fort-worth-man-dies-of-injuries.html#ixzz1fKGtXrul

• Fort Worth teen dies after car strikes home
  Nov 28, 2011

  FORT WORTH, Texas — A Fort Worth teen has died after a car he was riding in skidded off the road and slammed into a house.

  The Tarrant County medical examiner's office says that 17-year-old Christian Hernandez was pronounced dead at 1:34 a.m. Saturday at John Peter Smith Hospital.

  Police say Hernandez was riding in the back left passenger seat of a Chevrolet Cobalt when it clipped a minivan, hit a retaining wall, rolled onto its right side, hit a parked car and finally stuck the corner of a garage in north Fort Worth.

  The car's three other occupants were not seriously injured. The house's roof collapsed and a woman inside suffered minor injuries.

  Police told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (http://bit.ly/sKBFO0) that it had started to rain shortly before the crash.

  
  Source: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/11/27/3553214/fort-worth-teen-dies-after-car.html#ixzz1f1BP0xgF
  

• Car Flips in Arlington Pond after Accident, Killing 1
  Oct 10, 2011

  ARLINGTON, Texas - One person died early Friday morning after a collision between two vehicles caused one car to land upside-down in a pond.

  The dead man was a passenger in that car, but the driver was able to get out and was taken to the hospital, according to Arlington police public information officer Tiara Ellis Richard.

  Richard says it's too early to tell if the two cars were racing, but says the people in both cars knew each other.

  The accident happened at 5:30 a.m. in the 4200 block of N. Collins at Mossier Valley Road. Both cars were headed north on Collins and were possibly speeding, police said.

  The cars collided and skidded into a field on the side of a road, police said. But the silver car kept going and overturned in the pond.

  Richards said a man and a woman in the other car were able to walk away from the accident. Police found them north of the crash site.

  The driver of the silver car was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

  The medical examiner will release the dead victim's name after notifying his family.

• Boy, 10, dies after wreck at Arlington intersection
  Sep 02, 2011

  ARLINGTON - A 10-year-old Arlington boy died early Friday morning from injuries suffered in a two-vehicle wreck Thursday evening that investigators believe was alcohol-related.

  Tavian Sabur was pronounced dead at 4:26 a.m. at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth.

  Walter Tendai Chidyausiku, 29, has been arrested on two charges of suspicion of intoxication assault in the case and could face more serious charges because of Tavian's death and pending blood test results, Arlington police officials said.

  Arlington police stated in a news release that Tavian was a passenger in a car being driven by his mother when the wreck happened about 6 p.m. Thursday at the intersection of Nathan Lowe Road and Petra Drive.

  The mother had driven into the intersection, after first stopping at a four-way stop, when her car was struck by a westbound SUV whose driver had not stopped at the intersection, the release states.

  Tavian was taken by ambulance to the Medical Center of Arlington and later flown by helicopter to Cook Children's. His death has been ruled a homicide caused by multiple blunt trauma suffered in the wreck, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's office.

  Tavian's mother was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

  Chidyausiku, the driver of the SUV, was not seriously injured. He was arrested at the scene of the wreck after officers discovered indications that alcohol was a factor in the collision, the release states.

• Father gives details of hit-and-run incident that injured Tyler man
  Aug 16, 2011

  FORT WORTH - A Tyler man critically injured early Saturday in the West 7th area was hit by a vehicle in a parking garage before he was found, his father said late Monday.

  Tim Morby of Houston said his son, Grant Morby, 24, was on a second-floor parking garage at The Lofts at West 7th on his way to a friend's apartment.

  Grant Morby was in critical condition late Monday in a Fort Worth hospital with a severely lacerated liver after being hit by the vehicle.

  Tim Morby said that a man in a white pickup apparently backed his vehicle out of parking space and hit his son. A woman was in the passenger seat of the pickup.

  But the pickup driver drove out of the garage before authorities arrived. The driver, however, was stopped by a security guard, presenting identification and claiming to have insurance, Tim Morby said late Monday.

  Grant Morby was visiting the friend and they had been at a bar Friday night and Saturday morning. He was found about 2 a.m. Saturday in the garage in the 900 block of Norwood Street, a block south of West Seventh.

  Traffic investigators "were not initially called out to this scene," police Sgt. Pedro Criado said Monday. "However, they now have a lead on the follow-up investigation."

  Grant Morby's friend lives at Norwood and Morton streets near West Seventh, Tim Morby said.

  "They only had to walk about a half a block to the bar where they went that night. Somehow they all got separated," he said.

  The friend arrived at his apartment at 1:50 a.m. Saturday.

  At 2:10 a.m., Tim Morby and his wife received a call from a woman who found their son's phone.

  "It (the phone) wasn't locked, so she found a number ... and called us," Tim Morby said. "She said that Grant had been hit by a vehicle, that he was in pain and on the ground."

  Tim Morby spoke Monday in a telephone interview from Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth. He and his wife drove to Fort Worth from Galveston on Saturday morning.

• Car Accident | Killeen woman killed in rollover accident in Mansfield
  Aug 08, 2011

  A 23-year-old Killeen woman was killed Sunday afternoon after she was thrown from a car during a rollover wreck in Mansfield.

  Sarah Morris was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:23 p.m., according to the Tarrant County medical examiner's office.

  A male driver of the four-door Scion and a 3-week old boy who had been secured in a child safety seat were hospitalized, said Officer Thad Penkala, a Mansfield police spokesman.

  "From what I understand, they did not receive any life-threatening injuries," Penkala said.

  The single-vehicle wreck occurred in the southbound lanes of the 500 block of S. U.S. Highway 287. Penkala said the cause of the wreck remained under investigation Monday.

• Wrongful Death | Pickup driver killed while trying to change tire in south Fort Worth
  Jul 30, 2011

  A driver from Mansfield faces an intoxication manslaughter charge after a man was fatally struck near I-20 and Campus Drive in south Fort Worth overnight.

  The victim, an Alvarado man, had parked his brown 1984 Ford pickup on the eastbound shoulder in the 2500 block of Southeast Loop 820 to change a flat tire around 1:15 a.m. Friday, police said.

  A 1998 gold GMC van drove onto the shoulder and slammed into the pickup. The victim was outside the truck and died at the scene, police said.

  The driver of the van, Mario Campos, 59, was arrested and charged with intoxication manslaughter, police said.

  Police would only say that the driver lives in Mansfield. The victim has not been identified

• Driver of car in fatal Wise County crash remains hospitalized
  Jul 25, 2011

  The 17-year-old driver of a Ford Mustang that crashed early Saturday in Wise County, killing four of his passengers, remained in serious condition Sunday at a Fort Worth hospital.

  Danny Ray Nalley of Fort Worth was in John Peter Smith Hospital, where he has been since his car collided with a Ford F-350.

  Killed in the crash were Kevin Brickey, 19, of Blue Mound, and Vincent "Vinnie" Williams, 19, of Wakefield, Mass. On Sunday a third victim was identified as Vincent James LaGrassa, 19, of Fort Worth. A fourth victim had not been identified Sunday by the Tarrant County medical examiner's office.

  Nalley and Brickey graduated in June from Saginaw High School, where Nalley played football, according to an Eagle Mountain-Saginaw school official.

  The driver of the pickup, Richard Glenn Rand, 30, of Burleson, was taken to a hospital, but his injuries were not considered life-threatening.

  A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper said Sunday that the crash occurred when Nalley passed in a no-passing zone and crashed into the pickup on Farm Road 730 in Wise County, north of Decatur and about 50 miles north of Fort Worth.

  "Additional factors may arise later as the investigation progresses," DPS trooper Lonny Haschel said in an e-mail Sunday.

  The teens were returning from a party at the LBJ Grasslands, and Nalley was trying to pass a group of friends, relatives of LaGrassa said Sunday.

  The crash was reported shortly before 3:30 a.m. Saturday on the farm road near the intersection with County Road 2445.

  Rand told DPS troopers that he was northbound on Farm Road 730 when a southbound Mustang moved into the northbound lane. The Mustang and the pickup swerved into a ditch and collided.