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Hunting accident claims San Angelo high school student

January 25, 2012

Two days after being shot in a hunting accident, a Menard High School junior died at Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo, Texas, reports the Standard-Times.

The 17-year-old was a star running back at Menard and was recently honored on the Standard-Times’ All-West Texas Class 1A Football Team.

Menard head football coach said that the school and community were trying to cope with the popular student’s death.

“Everybody’s got very heavy hearts right now. He influenced a lot of people,” the coach said. “He helped coach the YMCA football team. He was a lifeguard in the summer. He was well-known throughout the community, and so it’s been a shock to everybody.”

According to the Menard County Sheriff, the teen was rabbit hunting with friends near Fort McKavett late Friday night when he was shot in the back of the head with a 22-caliber rifle.

No other details are known at this time.

The school’s principal said that pastors and counselors were at the school Monday to help students during the grieving process.

The coach said. “He was a happy-go-lucky kind of guy that just enjoyed being alive and around people.”

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Jan

Texas man arrested after DUI wreck

January 23, 2012

Two residents of Rosharon crashed on January 8 in a two-vehicle accident on the infamous stretch of highway known as FM 1462, reports the Alvin Sun.

One of the drivers was headed eastbound in his Volkswagon Jetta near County Road 528 when his vehicle drifted across the yellow line and hit a Toyota Corolla being driven by a 40-year-old woman.

“We believe [he] was intoxicated. After treatment at the Angleton/Danbury Hospital and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, he was taken to the Brazoria County Jail,” said the Texas Department of Public Safety.

He suffered compound fractures of his legs, a head injury, and internal injuries.

The woman, whose car he hit, was trapped inside her vehicle and had to be cut out of the automobile. She was also taken to the Angleton/Danbury Hospital and later transferred to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston.

Upon impact, the vehicle being driven by the woman rolled, landed on the passenger side, and burst into flames.

She suffered broken bones, open wounds to her left foot, a broken pelvis, a broken left arm, shattered glass in her eyes, and burns on her right foot.

“She is lucky to be alive,” officials added.

The accident is still under investigation.

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Jan

Texas school bus accident sends 32 to hospital

January 20, 2012

On January 17 at 7:30 a.m. on Farm-to-Market Road 93, a tractor-trailer clipped a school bus full of students and flipped it onto its side on the southeastern outskirts of Temple, Texas, about 60 miles northeast of Austin, reports the Insurance Journal.

Thirty-two people went to the hospital; 29 of them were children. A 9-year-old boy was ejected through the escape hatch in the bus roof. The bus driver was knocked unconscious, police said.

A trooper from the Texas Department of Public Safety said a hardware truck apparently ran a stop sign when it hit the Academy school district bus. Conditions were foggy, but it was unclear whether that factored into the crash, he said.

Three of the 29 children being treated were admitted to the hospital, one in critical condition. The other 26 children were discharged, said a spokeswoman for the Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple.

The Academy school superintendent said that the three injured children were expected to recover, although “they all face a long road” to recovery.

The bus driver also was listed in critical condition, but both of the other adults, including the truck driver, were treated and discharged, he said.

Counselors were available for students at the Academy schools on Wednesday.

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Jan

Texas Tech student injured in car wreck near Abilene

January 18, 2012

Just east of Abilene on Tuesday afternoon, a Texas Tech student was injured in a one-vehicle rollover, according to KTXS News.

A Department of Public Safety officer told KTXS News that the driver of the vehicle, a 19-year-old Texas Tech student, was the only one injured.

Three other students were in the vehicle but escaped injury.

The students were driving westbound on I-20 from the Dallas area to Lubbock when the accident occurred at mile marker 297, near the FM 603 exit, just east of Abilene.

The driver passed another car and started to pull into the right-hand lane, but there was a car there. The driver then over-corrected and lost control of the vehicle, officers at the scene said.

This over-correction caused her SUV to rollover onto the center medium. All of the students were wearing their seat belts. The vehicle was totaled.

The injured driver was taken to Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene with non-life-threatening injuries.

For about 30 minutes, westbound traffic on I-20 had to be diverted around the accident, officers at the scene told KTXS.

No other vehicles were involved in the crash.

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Jan

More outdoor education prompted by new Texas legislation

January 16, 2012

Changes in Texas boating laws mean increasing numbers of the state’s million-plus recreational boaters will be required to take an approved boater education course, reports the Houston Chronicle. With the changes, Texas joins a growing number of states that have imposed boater education requirements on large numbers of recreational boaters.

Under the adopted changes, persons born on or after Sept. 1, 1993, who are operating a personal watercraft (a boat powered by a motor of more than 15-horsepower or a wind-blown vessel measuring more than 14 feet) must have passed a state-approved boater education course and carry identification and proof of having passed the boater education course while operating those boats.

Those falling under the new law have several options–a traditional classroom course, a home-study course, and an online boater education course–for meeting the requirement that they take and pass a course approved by the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators.

All versions of the course cover basic boating laws, boating safety and boat handling.

Violation of the boater education requirement is a Class C misdemeanor carrying a potential penalty as much as a $500 fine.

Those charged with violating the boater education requirement can petition the court for a 90-day grace period during which, if the person successfully completes the course, the charges will be dismissed.

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