A Houston police officer was trying to coax a distraught woman toward his patrol car this morning when she dashed into Eastex Freeway traffic and was killed, authorities said.
The incident happened around 6 a.m. on U.S. 59 just south of Bush Intercontinental Airport.
The woman, who has not been identified, was hit by a pickup and died about 6 a.m. in the 14000 block of the Eastex Freeway near Lee Road, investigators said.
Investigators with the Harris County Sheriff's Office said that a Houston police officer saw the woman walking in the freeway's southbound lanes and tried to coax her into his squad car. But the woman refused.
She ran across the freeway, climbed over a concrete guardrail and then crossed the HOV lanes. She was in the northbound inside lane when a white four-door pickup, possibly a Ford, hit her. The driver didn't stop.
Witnesses told investigators that they had seen her running in front of oncoming vehicles several times before she was hit.
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