WOMAN KILLED, 11-YEAR-OLD AIRLIFTED AFTER TRUCK TRACTOR ACCIDENT IN WALLER CO.
A College Station woman was killed and a child was flown to the hospital after a collision with a truck tractor Wednesday night in Waller County.
The accident occurred around 8:45 p.m. on Highway 6, six miles north of Hempstead.
According to DPS Sergeant Stephen Woodard, a Kenworth truck tractor pulling a trailer was stopped at a crossover section of Highway 6 attempting to turn southbound.
Sgt. Woodard said the trailer of the vehicle was sticking out onto the inside northbound lane, where it was struck by a Toyota Corolla.
The driver of the Corolla, 49-year-old Furong Lin, was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger, an 11-year-old girl, was taken by helicopter to the hospital in unknown condition.
The driver of the Kenworth was not injured.
That segment of highway 6 has freeway speed but not the freeway controlled access, and people abuse the access to say the least.
I had noticed a few times where a semi truck waiting to make a u-turn on the inside lane with its back sticking 1/3 or 1/2 into the next lane. Very very dangerous, and hard to spot from a distance.
I had experienced semi or truck drivers right town into the highway from connecting road at very low speed, making existing traffic brake hard to avoid colliding into them.