A motorcyclist was seriously injured about 2 a.m. Saturday after he lost control of the cycle on a curve of the 2500 block of Simmons Drive near Interstate 10. Orange police said 32-year-old Rodney Keith Vice of Deer Park was driving a Harley-Davidson and lost control when he entered the curve and left the roadway. He was taken by Acadian Ambulance to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont.
A couple traveling with young children in an SUV escaped injury Friday afternoon when the cover of a pickup truck bed flew off and hit the SUV. The pickup truck had hydroplaned in the rain off Highway 62 and gone into a ditch. The driver of the pickup had minor injuries.
Orange police said the accident was in the 4100 block of Highway 62 South about 1:30 p.m. Friday. A Toyota Tundra pickup driven by 72-year-old Jimmy McKee of Bridge City was traveling northbound on Highway 62. The investigating officer reported the driver did not control his speed in the rain. The truck hydroplaned and hit the west ditch.
The cover of the pickup bed flew off and hit the passenger side of a Buick Enclave traveling southbound on the highway. No injuries were reported to the man and woman in the SUV, along with their young children, including an infant.
The driver of a 2018 Ford F150 left the scene early Sunday morning after the pickup hit the wall of an Interstate 10 access road.
Orange police went to the 9500 block of South Lutcher Drive near FM 1136 at 4:17 a.m. Sunday. The truck had been traveling east on the access road, left the roadway and hit the wall on the north side of the road. The truck was registered to a Vidor man.
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