Story 1: This fire occurred Friday morning on Frank Street in Baytown. The building was abandoned and there were no injuries.
Story 2: 2020-33153 – On July 7th at 3:45 p.m., officers responded
to a major accident in the 3100 block of Highway 146 North.
Upon arrival officers learned that two vehicles were traveling north
on the main lanes of Highway 146 when one of the vehicles,
a Hyundai Elantra that was in the left hand lane, made an unsafe lane change
and struck the other vehicle, a F250 traveling in the right hand lane.
This collision caused both vehicles to leave the main lanes with the Elantra
coming to a stop on the feeder road and the F-250 crashing through
a chain link fence and striking a mobile home in the Chase Village Mobile Home Park.
The residents, who were temporarily unable to get out of the mobile home
due to the damage, were uninjured nor were any of the occupants of the vehicles.
The driver of the Elantra was determined to be at fault and was cited
for multiple traffic violations including Changing Lanes Unsafely,
No Driver’s License and No Insurance.
Story 3: 2020-33192 – On July 7th at 8:41 p.m., officers responded to a report
of a major accident in the area if Highway 146 and El Chaco
involving a Kia Optima and an 18 wheeler. Upon arrival and during their investigation,
officers learned that the 18 wheeler was traveling south in the
7100 block of Highway 146 and the Optima was traveling east on El Chaco
when the Optima failed to stop at the red light and pulled onto Highway 146
, colliding with the 18 wheeler. No one was injured and the driver of the
Optima was determined to be at fault and was cited for Running a Red Light.
Story 4: 2020-33267 – This morning at 9:26 a.m., one of our officers was dispatched
to the south bound side of the Hartman Bridge regarding a road hazard.
Reports were that there was an expansion joint coming up out of the roadway
and vehicles were hitting it. Once on scene our officers activated his
emergency lights and positioned his vehicle in the lane of traffic
to keep vehicles from hitting the expansion joint while he waited for TXDOT
to arrive to address the road damage. While stopped in the lane of traffic
with his emergency lights activated, a 2004 Infinite being driven by a
54 year old Baytown woman, rear ended the Police Tahoe. Our officer
and the driver of the Infinite were transported by ambulance to a local
hospital to be treated for minor, non- life threatening injuries. The driver of the
other vehicle was cited for Failure to Yield to an Emergency Vehicle
and Failure to Control Speed. The accident caused the southbound lanes
of 146 to be closed for several hours however they were reopened at
approximately 12:00 p.m.