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Driver crashes into back of pickup truck, dies

A man is dead after driving his car into the back of a stopped truck on the Sam Houston Tollway.  According to the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office the pickup truck had pulled over to the side of the road so one of the passengers could get out to check the load they were carrying on a trailer.

As the passenger was on top of the trailer tightening a strap that was holding down the load, a car crashed into the trailer.  Investigators do not know why the driver of the car hit the stopped pickup truck, but theorize that the driver may have drifted out of his lane because of a slight curve in the road where the accident happened.

The pickup truck passenger fell from the trailer onto the road when the car hit.  He broke his leg in the fall, but no other injuries were reported and the driver was unharmed.

The driver of the car was taken by helicopter to Memorial Hermann Hospital Texas Medical Center to be treated.  He died at the hospital.

This is the second accident involving a stopped vehicle.  Earlier this month two people were killed when a tractor trailer smashed into the back of their car as they were stopped in the left lane of a road.

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