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Victims Identified After Honda Split In Two In Highway Collision
Two women and a teenager were injured Tuesday morning in an accident on China Spring Road outside of Waco.
Reporter: By Paul J. Gately and Micah T. Williams Email Address: news@kwtx.com |
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WACO (January 5, 2010)--Three people were taken to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center after a two-vehicle accident Tuesday morning on China Spring Road.
Helen Lykins, 54, of China Spring, was flown to Hillcrest by Careflight helicopter with serious injuries, but she is expected to recover.
She was driving a 1995 Honda Accord.
Her 15-year-old daughter also went to Hillcrest where she was treated and later released.
Felicia Farrera, of Waco, the driver of the other vehicle, a 2003 Chrysler Town and Country minivan, was taken to Hillcrest by East Texas Medical Center ambulance and is being treated there for non-in-capacitating injuries.
Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Jason Ballew told News 10 the driver of the Honda was attempting a turn onto China Spring Rd. from Tusa Lane and the minivan was travelling north on China Spring Rd.
The minivan driver told the trooper she was distracted for a brief time and when she looked up she saw the Honda pulling into her lane.
The force of the impact ripped the Honda in half and sent the rear portion of the car into the west side ditch.
The front half came to rest in the center of the northbound lane.
Lykins was wearing a seatbelt but the force of the impact tore the belt in half and as a result Lykins was thrown from the car.
Her daughter, also a front seat passenger, was belted as well and remained in the seat.
Farrera also was wearing a seatbelt.
Crews from the China Spring Fire Department and the Waco Fire Department had to use the Jaws of Life to free at least one of the injured.
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You may call yourself a corrector, but you do nothing more than make a baseless claim. I have traveled that part of the highway many times and am familiar with its environment. Please explain how the portion of 1637 at Tusa is as dangerous as any part of CS Hwy at any time of any day? I can at least qualify my assertion: Between the elementary school and Steinbeck Bend, several factors increase the danger: denser population which increases traffic, more businesses and cross roads which result in more turns against the flow, and even traffic lights disrupt the ability of traffic to space out (which allows room for drivers to smoothly enter the flow). The danger in that area is orders of magnitude greater during the commuting hours in morning and afternoon than out at Tusa Lane. By your logic, I-10 in West Texas would be one of the most dangerous roads in America because there's so little there, people will simply fall asleep and crash at 120 miles per hour. Nonsense.
this road is one of the most dangerous in the area, i have to turn off of the china spring highway to get on to gary lane and always keep one eye on the review mirror. have been spooked more than once. the state needs to fix this. is this not what or tax dollars are for
It's amazing that no one was killed in a wreck where one of the cars was ripped in half! All involved should be grateful that they get a second chance at life.
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