People were having a hard time driving straight during the weekend. Orange police investigated four crashes involving vehicles leaving the roadway and crashing into poles, trees and one hit a parked car. Only one injury was reported.
At 2:34 a.m. Saturday, a Chevrolet C1500 pickup truck was traveling westbound in the 2500 block of Edleman Road at Memorial Drive. The truck went off the road and hit a light pole. Police said the driver, 23-year-old Chaz Derrick Bacon of West Orange, was given a ticket for failure to maintain a single lane.
A Toyota Tacoma pickup truck went off the Interstate 10 access road at the Texas Travel Center at 3:07 a.m. Saturday. Police said the Tacoma was going westbound and drove over a curb. The truck then hit two Texas Department of Transportation signs and crashed into the driver’s side of a parked Ford Edge.
The 34-year-old driver of the Ford, 34-year-old Samuel Torres of Florida, was taken by Acadian Ambulance Service to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont with minor injuries. A 7-year-old in the car was not injured.
The driver of the pickup truck, 63-year-old Richard Floyd Schlesinger of Beaumont, was cited for failure to maintain a single lane.
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Saturday night at 7:40, a Ford Fusion traveling northbound in the 8500 block of FM 1130 went off the east side of the road, drove through the grass shoulder and hit a wooden utility pole. Police gave the driver, 21-year-old Daniel Scott Frazier of Orange a citation for failure to maintain a single lane.
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A Kia Sorrento SUV hit trees after running off the roadway in the 9000 block of Highway 87 North near Canterbury Drive. Police were called to the collision at 8:35 p.m. Saturday. Officers reported the vehicle was traveling northbound and left the west side of the roadway. The Kia traveled through the front yard of a house, hit two trees and then came to rest in another residential front yard.
Police said the driver was 28-year-old Helen Kathleen Ames of Call, Texas. Neither she nor a 38-year-old passenger was injured. She was cited for failure to maintain a single lane.
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