Orange police investigated several vehicle crashes during the weekend with 11 people, including four children, taken by ambulance to area hospitals.
A 30-year-old man from Corpus Christi is facing four charges of intoxication assault in connection with a collision Sunday night on Highway 62 at Interstate 10. The impact sent a small car with two adults and two children crashing into the Flying J sign at the truck stop.
Also, police filed driving while intoxicated charges against a man who rolled his Buick over on Burton Avenue Sunday before noon. Police reported he had hit two different pickup trucks and sped away.
Police went to Highway 62 near the Flying J truck stop about 11 p.m. Sunday. Officers reported a Dodge Neon was traveling northbound in the outside lane on Highway 62. A Ford F250 was also in the lane and was traveling too fast. The truck hit the back of the Dodge and then went across into the southbound lanes before coming to a stop.
The Dodge left the roadway and hit the Flying J sign. The driver was a 31-year-old woman from Mamou, Louisiana. A 57-year-old woman was in the front passenger seat and two girls, ages 5 and 12, were in the back seat. All four were taken by Acadian Ambulance to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont. The two girls were listed as having non-incapacitating injuries. The 57-year-old woman’s injuries were listed as serious. The driver had minor injuries.
Police said 30-year-old Jose G. Cantu III will face four charges of intoxicated assault.
Earlier on Sunday, a Buick Lacrosse rolled over onto its roof on Burton Avenue on the west side of the railroad tracks. Police said 34-year-old Andrus Tremaine Hardin was taken by Acadian Ambulance to St. Elizabeth Hospital with head injuries.
He was cited for driving while intoxicated and failure to have insurance. According to the police report, about 11:40 a.m. Hardin was driving the Buick and hit a Chevrolet pickup truck with a 66-year-old man driving and 65-year-old man in the passenger seat. That crash was at Second Street. The Buick then turned into the parking lot on Turret and Second, then came out heading westbound on Burton. In the 600 block of Burton, the Buick sideswiped another pickup truck which was driving by a 43-year-old man. None of the people in the trucks were reported injured.
The Buick traveled westbound on Burton. At the raised railroad tracks, the car went into the air then hit trees on a vacant lot. After hitting the trees, the car rolled over and landed on the roof.
Hardin was taken by Acadian Ambulance to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont. He was reported to have a head injury.
That wasn’t the only rollover police investigated during the weekend. Early Saturday morning a Hyandai Veloster rolled over on Interstate 10 East near Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The driver, 24-year-old Victoria Wilkinson of Beaumont, was taken by Acadian Ambulance to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont. Her injuries were reported to not be serious.
Police said the Veloster was traveling behind a Volvo 18-wheel rig in the eastbound outside lane. The Veloster passed the truck rig on the right side of the interstate and got between the truck and another vehicle.
Then the driver lost control of the Veloster and hit the truck rig. The car overturned once and came to a stop in the inside lane. Police cited the Veloster drivver with failure to maintain a single lane. The truck driver was not injured.
A family of four from Houston was injured in a collision at noon Saturday in the 2400 block of Simmons Drive off Interstate 10. Police said a Ford Explorer, driven by a 38-year-old man from Houston was traveling southbound on Simmons and collided with a Mercedes Benz 500 driven by a 40-year-old man from Sulphur, Louisiana.
The left front of the Explorer and the right front of the Mercedes hit. Police said they could not tell what happened because the drivers blamed each other and there were no witnesses.
Acadian Ambulance took the Houston man, a 35-year-old woman, a 4-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont. All were reported to have non-incapacitating injuries. The Mercedes driver was not injured.
Saturday evening a motorcycle crashed at Link and Park avenues. 50-year-old Felix Guillory of Orange was taken by Acadian Ambulance to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont with non-incapacitating injuries.
Police reported he was on a Suzuki motorcycle traveling at an unsafe speed west on Link Avenue about 7:30 p.m. He lost control of the cycle and hit a curb. The motorcycle overturned onto Park Avenue. He was cited for no driver’s license and traveling at an unsafe speed.
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