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Truck slams into apartment building
Published November 28, 2009
CLUTE — Police were trying to determine who drove a blue truck into a vacant apartment unit off Lakeview Drive on Friday night, narrowly missing a minivan with children inside.
Firefighters pulled one man out of the truck, and he was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital by LifeFlight helicopter. Clute police officials said late Friday they did not know the man’s name and he did not have identification with him. Witnesses reported another man wearing a black hoodie crawled out of the wrecked truck and ran from the scene before police arrived.
“He jumped to the back seat and left,” said Carolina Bejarano.
The man had not been located late Friday, Clute Police Sgt. Greg Nowlin said.
Bejarano, of Austin, was loading up her children after visiting relatives for the Thanksgiving holiday when a blue truck raced by her in the parking lot and slammed into a nearby apartment.
“They were going really fast,” Bejarano said.
The truck made a turn in the 100 block of Lakeview Drive about 6:50 p.m. and clipped the back end of a Chevrolet truck driven by Reyes Hernandez before it jumped into the parking lot and hit the apartment.
Hernandez was turning right to leave the complex after he dropped off his brother and friend, who live there. The truck was coming around the turn fast, he said.
Hernandez was not injured.
“I’m shaken up and a little nervous,” Hernandez said. “I want him to be OK.”
The truck’s front end plowed into the apartment, creating a hole with the back end sticking out.
Bricks and pieces of brush were piled around the wreck.
Police said they are not sure who drove the truck or whether the two inside were wearing seat belts at the time of the accident.
Nowlin said the only visible injury to the man inside the truck was a scratch to his forehead.
“He definitely had his bell rung,” Nowlin said. “He was in and out of consciousness.”
Police said they did not smell any alcohol on the man who was pulled from the truck.
Clute Police Detective Scotty Harris said the apartments next to the vacant unit were not evacuated.
“There’s not enough structural damage,” he said.
A Clute building inspector was called to the scene before the truck was removed.
John Tompkins is senior reporter for The Facts. Contact him at 979-849-8581.
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