A total of eight people lost their lives in Houston, Texas, this past weekend. The Houston Chronicle reports that four people were shot, one stabbed, and three died in car crashes.

Among the car crash deaths, one was a hit-and-run and two occurred in a five-car collision caused by a drunk driver, says the Houston Police Department.

The five-car crash occurred around 11:30 p.m. Saturday at a tollbooth in northwest Houston, killing a brother and sister whose car was hit by a 55-year-old man with a blood alcohol level two times above the legal limit. The drunk driver was charged with two counts of intoxication manslaughter.

Four hours later, at 3:45 a.m. on Sunday, a 21-year-old man died of multiple gunshot wounds in southwest Houston.

Around the same time, a 32-year-old man was stabbed to death in north Houston. Also in north Houston, a 40-year-old man was shot in the head in a parking lot early Sunday morning.

Still another man died in north Houston at 4:15 a.m. after he was shot in the head and later found dead in a ditch.

Sunday night around 7:45 p.m. a 44-year-old woman died in a car collision on a Beltway 8 service road when she attempted to change lanes and was struck by another vehicle. The driver of the other car fled the scene.

An hour later in north Houston a 38-year-old man was shot to death after an argument with two men in a vacant lot.

At 9:10 p.m. a 27-year-old man was robbed of his wallet and then shot and killed while walking with his wife from their apartment to their car.

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A Houston, Texas, police officer has been charged with DWI after causing an accident in Pasadena on Sunday, October 16.

The 37-year-old officer was charged with drunken driving and unlawful carrying of a weapon after running a red light in his white Tahoe and crashing into another vehicle on Red Bluff and Beltway 8 around 1 a.m. that Sunday.

No one was seriously injured in the auto accident.

A Pasadena Police Department public information officer told The Pasadena Citizen that an officer dispatched to the scene noted that the Houston officer appeared intoxicated, had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech. He failed several field sobriety tests. After refusing to have his blood drawn, the officer was taken to HPD’s Central Intox facility where a search warrant allowed the taking of his blood.

A sample of his blood revealed a blood alcohol level of 0.127 percent. However, the legal limit in Texas is 0.08 percent.

The Houston officer, who was been with the department since 2001, was relieved from duty on Monday pending an investigation into the accident.

The Pasadena Citizen notes that while it’s not illegal to carry a weapon in a car in Texas, it becomes an offense when connected with a violation of the law.

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A 17-year-old has been charged in Tuesday’s fatal hit-and-run, which occurred at the intersection of Cleburne and Dowling around 11:20 p.m.

Police say the crash killed a 27-year-old Lancaster female, a second-year student at Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law.

The male teen had reportedly been traveling east on Cleburne in a Buick LeSabre when he ran a red light near Dowling, colliding with a Nissan Altima in which the victim was a passenger. The Houston Chronicle reports that the teen had been speeding away from a police officer who had approached his car minutes earlier while investigating a suspicious car. The officer reportedly asked the teen driver and his passenger to get out of the vehicle. The passenger got out and was detained, but the teen sped away.

The teen, who surrendered to police on Wednesday after leaving the scene of the crash Tuesday night, has been charged with manslaughter and accident involving injury/death.

The driver and another passenger in the Nissan were taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital. The surviving passenger was listed in critical condition on Wednesday.

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A bicyclist in Houston, Texas, died last week as he attempted to cross Beaumont Highway.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office says the accident occurred around 7:30 p.m. on Friday in the 13400 block of Highway 90. According to The Houston Chronicle, it was dark outside, and the man was reportedly riding along the highway in an especially badly lit area of the highway. When the bicyclist began to travel north to cross the highway, he rode into the path of a westbound 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis.

The victim was taken by helicopter to Memorial Hermann hospital. He later died of his injuries.

No one else was injured in the accident, which remains under investigation.

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A motorcyclist died in Houston, Texas, on Sunday when he ran into the rear of a pickup truck and was thrown into a drainage ditch along Beaumont Highway.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office reports that the crash occurred at the 16500 block of Beaumont Highway around 12:30 a.m. The victim had reportedly been traveling west at a high rate of speed on his 1999 Honda motorcycle when he hit the back of a westbound Ford F-150 truck.

According to The Houston Chronicle, the motorcyclist was tossed from his motorcycle and landed in a drainage ditch.

The victim, who was not wearing a helmet, was pronounced dead at the crash site. No one else was injured.

The pickup truck’s driver stopped and remained at the scene until police arrived. Police have said that the pickup driver showed no signs of impairment.

This was one of at least four motorcycle-related fatalities in Harris County in recent weeks.

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A man died and two other men were injured Thursday in a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 45 southeast of downtown Houston, Texas.

According to The Houston Chronicle, the collision began at 12:30 a.m. when a man lost control of his red GMC pickup truck while driving north on the Gulf Freeway near Woodridge at a high rate of speed. The pickup truck hit a concrete retaining wall and spun out into the center of the road.

The man then got out of his pickup truck. A man who’d witnessed the crash pulled over and stopped to help. Both men were standing on the freeway when a third vehicle, a black Toyota Avalon, came upon them and knocked the pickup truck into both the victim and the witness.

The victim died at the scene, and the other two drivers were taken to area hospitals, though information about the extent of their injuries has not been released.

ABC13 reports that neither the Toyota driver nor the witness seemed to be impaired.

The wreck is being investigated.

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Two motorcyclists died in separate motorcycle wrecks in east Harris County, Texas, last Thursday, and in the week prior still another motorcyclist was killed in that area.

Deputies told The Houston Chronicle that one crash occurred Thursday, October 6, around 1 a.m. in the 1300 block of FM 2100 near the San Jacinto River when a 58-year-old Huffman man who was traveling northbound on his motorcycle failed to negotiate a curve and veered off the road. His motorcycle blasted through gravel and a grassy area and became airborne over a small creek, landing on the opposite bank.

The man died as a result of the crash. It’s not yet known whether alcohol or speed were a factor.

Another east Harris County motorcyclist died that same night when he was driving his motorcycle west on Beaumont Highway. The man, who was not wearing a helmet, hit the back of a westbound Chevrolet Camaro and was thrown from the motorcycle. He died at the scene.

The Lake Houston Observer reports that a third victim died on October 1 when an alleged drunk driver hit his motorcycle head-on in the 24000 block of FM 2100.

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A 38-year-old Houston, Texas, woman has died at a hospital after being hit by a car while jogging in the Heights last week.

The Houston Chronicle reports that the jogger was critically injured in a traffic collision on Wednesday, October 5, in the 1100 block of Heights Boulevard.

A gray Chevrolet Malibu that was westbound on West 11^th hit the woman as she attempted to cross the street at Heights Boulevard. The Houston Police Department says the Malibu’s driver then stopped the vehicle. The driver is said to have had a green light and the right way at the intersection when the collision occurred.

Witnesses have said that the victim appeared to be jogging and listening to music right before she entered the intersection.

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A 25-year-old Spring, Texas, woman now faces another drunken driving charge two years after her four-year-old daughter died in a DWI crash.

The Houston Chronicle reports that the woman backed her car into another vehicle and was arrested on Wednesday, October 5. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office told the newspaper that the woman is now being held without bond and that her charge has been updated to a felony in light of her previous conviction.

The woman, who was convicted of intoxication manslaughter in 2008, received a 10-year probated sentence when she plead guilty in the crash that killed her young daughter.

According to a witness, the woman had been weaving in and out of traffic before she lost control of her car. Police later determined that the little girl had been sitting in the front passenger seat and was likely only restrained by the lap belt portion of her seatbelt.

MyFoxdfw.com reports court records showed that during the 2008 crash the woman had a blood alcohol content of 0.24 — three times the legal limit for driving.

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A car accident in New Caney, Texas, last week took the lives of three teenaged boys and injured two others.

KPRC reports that the fatal crash occurred around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 28, when the driver lost control of the car the teens were traveling in and veered off the road, flipping near the intersection of Sorters Road and North Plantation Estates Drive.

One 18-year-old boy and two 17-year-old boys died in the crash, while a 17-year-old boy and 16-year-old boy were treated for cuts and bruises at a hospital and then released. All were Porter High School students.

“I noticed they were speeding,” a witness told KPRC. “They barely missed me.”

A spokeswoman with the New Caney Independent School District says the intersection where the boys died is a particularly dangerous one with lots of turns.

“It’s tough when you hear students are continually involved in accidents there, and today—a fatality,” said spokeswoman Kelley Mattlage. “That’s something we never, ever want to hear.”

The cause of the crash is still being investigated.

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