Local state Trooper Kimberly Ousman has received the Texas Department of Public Safety Purple Heart for being injured on the job while investigating an Interstate 10 crash two years.
DPS in a news release said Trooper Ousman was injured on Interstate 10 in Orange County on July 23, 2014.
The original report on the collision said it happened about 10:47 p.m. eastbound near FM 1136 on a rainy night. A Lake Charles man driving a van crashed into the trooper’s patrol car. The force of the impact pushed the patrol car into the previously crashed car, when then hit the trooper. The driver of the van was given a citation for failure to control speed.
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