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Updated Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:00 PM
One wreck sends two Sherman women to hospital
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CHRIS JENNINGS / HERALD DEMOCRAT
A wrecker driver gets ready to remove one of the two cars involved in a wreck Tuesday on North Travis Street in Sherman. |
BY MARY JANE FARMER
HERALD DEMOCRAT
SHERMAN -- Several wrecks dotted the landscape on Tuesday, four of them occurring within minutes. The first one, on North Travis Street, was the only one with where people were injured severely enough to be taken to an area hospital for treatment.
A northbound Ford SUV collided with a southbound 2007 Ford passenger car, which had made a left turn in front of the SUV as it was entering a business' parking lot. Sherman police officer Mark Wood said two people, both Sherman women, were taken to Wilson N. Jones Medical Center, but no injuries appeared to have been life-threatening.
Before officials were through clearing North Travis Street, two fender-benders were called in on East Houston around Grand Street. And only minutes later, Sherman police, ambulances, and fire trucks were called to a three-vehicle wreck on U.S. Highway 75 at the Park Street overpass. The wreck occurred when a car struck a truck and pushed it into an Atlas Van Lines truck, Woods said. The car spun and came to a stop in across both lanes of traffic.
No one was transported to a hospital. Police re-routed traffic onto the east service road around the wreck.
 Comments ... 6 found!
To Cell or not : 11/28/2009
I feel so bad that the first wreck in history happened since the invention of cell phones. Cell phones can't be blamed for everything. Some times drivers don't pay attention, or decide THEY have the right of way, or have road rage and a cell phone has nothing to do with it. I do agree with the comment about texting while driving should be viewed the same as a DWI. How about a TWI?
Denison Driver without a wreck and an active cell phone
Do This, Don't Do That, Can't You Read the Signs : 11/27/2009
The answer to all our problems are just a few more laws, and a little more government intrusion into the daily lives of ordinary citizens. And, increased taxes to pay the cell phone police and to jail those who refuse to conform/pay. Really?
Adolph
Make it illegal!! : 11/27/2009
I've had a cellphone since '88 and I long believed these driving while talking complaints were coming from the same whining folks who complain about smokers, or overweight folks, etc. You know the kind, the busy boddies, or scourges of society. For I've never come close being in an accident while talking on the cellphone and driving. But, I never tail-gate (talking or not), I don't speed (so don't try to make me), and I always leave myself an out. ............... However, of late I've watched far too many folks who obviously think their lightening fast reflexes and quick response steering allows them to talk on the phone, tailgate, speed, and slide to a stop at red lights (which dang near scares the ... out of me, especially if I'm on my motorcycle) while showing zero concern for any other vehicles on the road. ....... I now say, make it illegal, and fine the business out of'em if they are caught talking on a cellphone and driving. TEXTING while driving should result in an immediate loss of their license and have them treated exactly like someone caught DWI.
BTW: You can still blow smoke in my face, stink like nicottine, or carry those extra pounds, I won't think any less of you.
Just call me Mr. Scourges
Driving and cell phones. : 11/27/2009
Here's my thought about cell phone laws (and seat belt laws, and motorcycle helmet laws, and drunk driving laws, and excessive speeding laws).
If you're engaging in an activity while driving that is known to be hazardous, make it a law saying your insurer doesn't have to honor your claim. For example, ALL STATES should recognize a riders FREEDOM to go without a motorcyale helmet...HOWEVER...if you dump your motorbike and suffer a head injury your insurer shouldn't have to pay if you weren't wearing a helmet. Same with seatbelts. I agree..you should be able to choose whether you wear your seatbelt or not...but your insurer should be able to say "No Seat Belt...No Ceverage". Building/buying a home on the coast or below sea level...same deal. That would save insurance companies BILLIONS. Now I don't represent any insurance company so I'm not advocating for them. I am an insurance company customer..re: the guy insurance companies get their money from.
Al
Wrecks : 11/25/2009
My sentiments exactly, Richard. I think the rash of wrecks that have been occuring recently are the result of using the cell phone while driving. We need to contact our state representative and state senator to see what can be done to make it illegal to use the cell phone while driving.
Help
wrecks : 11/25/2009
I have stated this before and I will state it again... PEOPLE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION AND SLOW DOWN... everyone these days seems to disregard those words! They drive OFFENSIVELY and not DEFENSIVELY... and they are also the ones that give your a knife and dagger stare when they pass you, even though you are going nearly 10 MPH over the speed limit already... On HWY 75, they zoom past you so they can be first to go through the one lane construction areas and cause traffic backups for everyone else... Talk about ANNOYING DRIVERS and their habits... Get off the phone (that means NO TALKING or TEXTING), PAY ATTENTION to your surroundings, BE COURTEOUS, drive defensively and not offensively! You will still get to where you are going...
Richard
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