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Elderly Texas Woman Trapped Inside Burning Truck Dies
A 70-year-old woman who was trapped after her pickup truck left a Texas highway, slammed into a culvert and a tree and then burst into flames.
Reporter: By Sylvia Villarreal, KBTX-TV |
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(GRIMES COUNTY) August 24, 2009--A fiery accident in Grimes County claims the life of a 70-year-old Anderson woman and sent her passenger in a nearby hospital.
Deputies say around 2 p.m. yesterday afternoon Rosalie Eva Szymanski was driving a 2004 Ford pickup heading south on Highway 90 when she moved to the shoulder to allow other vehicles to pass.
Szymanski's vehicle left the roadway, struck a culvert then a tree, trapping her inside the truck, which quickly became engulfed in flames.
She was pronounced dead at the scene, her body has been taken to Conroe for autopsy.
The passenger, 29-year-old Gerardo Aroldo Lopez, was transported to Grimes Saint Joseph in Navasota with a laceration to the head.
The Grimes County Sheriff's Department and volunteers from both Anderson and Navasota responded to the accident.
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Dave in Belton,it is not illegal to drive on the shoulder if you are allowing a faster moving vehicle to pass. It is actually required by law if you are traveling 5 or more mph under the posted speed limit to move to the improved shoulder to allow traffic to pass. If you don't you are impeding traffic and in violation of the law.
I would just like to say at 70 most people still have most of their facalties and can drive fairly well perhapes this laidy was being crowded off the road. I feel sorry for the family did you ever think of how this lady suffered as she burned. Pray for her family I sons that or fierman and they have seen plenty. i do hope she went quickly and the good Lord will be with her family.
Plus - it is illegal to drive on the shoulder of the road.
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