A commercial truck driver has pleaded guilty to four counts of manslaughter in connection with an Interstate 10 pile-up in Vidor that killed four people in 2014.
Roy Ellis Holcomb Jr. made the plea Friday before 260th District Judge Buddie Hahn. The judge set the sentencing date for September 29.
The Texas Department of Public Safety cited Holcomb for driving at an unsafe speed in connection with the crashes at 9:30 p.m. October 1, 2014.
62-year-old Glenda Blackwell of Vidor and her two young great-grandchildren were killed in her Kia SUV. DPS said the SUV become lodged under the Kenworth semitrailer that Holcomb was driving.
Also killed was Luis Alonso Rodriguez Comacho of Mexico. He was driving a Ford passenger car that the Kenworth semi drove over.
DPS said the Kenworth rig was traveling westbound on Interstate 10 in the center lane near the Asher Turnaround. The Kenworth ran into the back of a Volvo semitrailer, causing the Volvo to hit a Dodge pickup truck. The driver of the pickup was not seriously injured.
Then the Kenworth steered right and drove over Comacho’s Ford, which caught fire. The semi then hit Blackwell’s SUV.
The manslaughter charges are second degree felonies each punishable by two to 20 years in prison along with a maximum $10,000 fine.
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