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An early Sunday morning crash in Tomball claimed the life of a motorcyclist when a woman driving a Mercedes G Wagon SUV pulled in front of the biker.

HCSO lists the time of the crash as around 2:00 a.m. The woman’s SUV was traveling eastbound on Spring Cypress Road near Highway 249 when she commenced a left turn in the path of the westbound motorcycle. The motorbike struck the passenger side rear door of the Mercedes causing extensive damage. The motorcyclist died at the scene.

Damage to the Mercedes SUV

KHOU’s news story indicates that HCSO believe alcohol was a factor in the crash for the woman driving the Mercedes. If she is determined to have been legally intoxicated at the time of the collision she could face a charge of intoxication manslaughter.

Police say a Chevrolet pickup truck was speeding, and the driver’s alcohol consumption may have been a factor, in the first fatal accident of 2014 in Houston.  Police say the pickup truck ran a red light at the intersection of Pierce Street and Milam Street in downtown Houston around 1:00 a.m., crashing into the passenger side of a white Mercedes sedan.  A husband and wife were traveling in the Mercedes: the husband was killed in the accident, the wife transported to Memorial Hermann Hospital. Read Channel 2’s report here.

Photo credit: Channel 11 Houston

Photo credit: Ch. 11 News Houston

Police suspect the driver of a silver Mercedes car may have been drunk when he collided with a Toyota pulling out of a Valero gas station early Saturday morning. The accident happened at around 2: 30 a.m. according to Houston Police Department, at Fairbanks N. Houston Road and West Road. Three people in the Toyota were injured in the crash, two of them were taken by Life Flight in critical condition. The Mercedes driver was arrested at the scene.

Mercedes driver arrested on suspicion of DWI

3 people in Toyota injured, two transported via Life Flight

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