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Updated Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:59 PM
Seven injured in crash near Van Alstyne
By MARY JANE FARMER
Herald Democrat
VAN ALSTYNE -- The thunderstorms tore through Grayson County on Sunday with sky-to-ground lightning, heavy rains and winds estimated to have reached 60 mph were blamed for a major, three-vehicle wreck in the southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 75 in the Van Alstyne area.
According to responders on police and ambulance radio frequencies, seven people were injured. Van Alstyne's EMS received assistance from Sherman ambulance crews, and Gunter Fire Department helped with traffic control.
Officers reported traffic was especially hazardous because approaching drivers could not see the danger through the heavy rains.
Radio traffic also was heard to say the southbound U.S. Highway 75 service road approaching the F.M. 902 overpass in Howe was flooded and Haning Street in Howe was also flooding under that overpass. A few moments later, a report came through that the police station, which is a short distance west of U.S. Highway 75, was beginning to take on water.
Firefighters were also heard responding to assist a motorist in the Hall Cemetery Road area west of Howe. The driver was still inside his vehicle stuck on the flooded roadway.
Another report was relayed that a driver on the Red River bridge lost control of his vehicle, bounced a couple of times off the guard rail and wound up down the embankment.
By 10:50 p.m. emergency dispatchers for Grayson County were forwarding reports that Van Alstyne roadways at exit 51, exit and entrance ramps, were completely flooded.
 Comments ... 6 found!
Someday... : 11/1/2009
Someday...maybe your going to learn to be careful when it is raining, the roads are flooding. The Sherman citizens are the worst for not letting people merge into lane changing. Why aren't you more respectful? I have been in my new job for six weeks now and it is the worst I have ever seen for considerate drivers. Even Fort Worth drivers are more considerate than you are for a metroplex highway and roads. Just be more careful and considerate...that is all I ask. I don't want to deal with an accident because it is your fault,just wake up!
Sherri L. Jillson
: 10/27/2009
Please do not rush when it is raining. Haven't we lost enough people in the world
LegalEagle
Yeah! : 10/26/2009
I say we make em walk to work on a pedestrian lane that they have to tippy toe on down the center stripe. Durned fools, yestedy they scared my ol'mule "Rivers" and I was plumb to the crick for I gotten her slowed. Yep, Tippy Toes, a meetin' diesels goin' backerds and for erds to the Metryplex
Yahoo, Mooountain Dew
Bad Weather : 10/26/2009
Getting your drivers license through TEXDOT doesn't require you to learn how to drive in bad weather. Maybe in the future it should be part of the test. Huh!
D Greenway
Van Alstyne Accident : 10/26/2009
Don't do no good to tell these idiots to slow down in rain or not to drive into high water. All they want to give is a poor me story when they are stuck or have a wreck. The ones I feel sympathy for are the drive's who do slow down and try to be safe and then get run over by the idiot who hydroplaned because he too stupid to slow down.
justtickedoff
SLOW DOWN : 10/26/2009
SLOW DOWN FOLKS WHEN DRIVING IN HE RAIN
Lorie
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