Frisco Wrongful Death Airplane Crash Dallas Dead Personal Injury
Authorities on Friday identified two more Dallas men who were on board a Carrollton company’s plane that crashed in a thunderstorm this week off the Gulf Coast of Florida.
Jeff Byron, 40, and Greg Arceneaux, 54, were on the plane with two other men from Dallas, pilot Steve Barrows and Roland Schurrer, president of Quality Powder Coating, authorities said.
Byron also worked for Quality, and Arceneaux was described as Byron’s friend. Officials from the metal coating company say the group was headed to Tampa for a meeting when their plane crashed Wednesday afternoon.
The fifth passenger was Mysela “Mike” Parks, a media production manager for the McNichols Co., said a spokeswoman for the Tampa, Fla., steel services company.
Bill Pellan with the Pinellas-Pasco County medical examiner’s office said that investigators have received fragmented remains recovered from debris in the Gulf of Mexico and are now waiting for family members to submit DNA samples. He said the process of positively identifying the remains could take weeks.
The accident occurred after the pilot told air traffic controllers that he had lost control in heavy turbulence. Coast Guard officials said the wreckage suggested that the crash was “catastrophic” and on Thursday afternoon called off the search 20 miles west of Port Richey, Fla.
Schurrer, 40, and Barrows, 33, shared a home in the Knox-Henderson area of Dallas, where neighbors described them as nice men who doted on their two chocolate Labs. Authorities say the dogs were also believed to be on the plane.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Fatality Wrongfuld Death Car Wreck Crash Loop 820 Fort Worth
Fort Worth Personal Injury Wrongful Death 820 Fatalities
FORT WORTH -- Police were investigating a multiple vehicle accident on Friday that included at least one fatality, according to authorities.
A bus and two other vehicles were involved in a collision and at least one vehicle was on fire, said Lt. Kent Worley, Fort Worth Fire Department spokesman.
The collision occurred about 5:40 p.m. at Mark IV Parkway and Loop 820, police said.
A Mobility Impaired Transportation Service bus was carrying one passenger who was not injured, a Transit Authority spokeswoman said. The bus driver also was unhurt, she said.
FORT WORTH -- Police were investigating a multiple vehicle accident on Friday that included at least one fatality, according to authorities.
A bus and two other vehicles were involved in a collision and at least one vehicle was on fire, said Lt. Kent Worley, Fort Worth Fire Department spokesman.
The collision occurred about 5:40 p.m. at Mark IV Parkway and Loop 820, police said.
A Mobility Impaired Transportation Service bus was carrying one passenger who was not injured, a Transit Authority spokeswoman said. The bus driver also was unhurt, she said.
Rollover Car Truck Accident in Haltom City Fort Worth
A woman was ejected from a truck that rolled on westbound Loop 820 late Friday morning and its driver was trapped inside for a short time, according to reports.
The single-vehicle rollover wreck happened around 11 a.m., said Sgt. Eric Peters, police spokesman.
The woman, who was a passenger in the dump truck, was taken by helicopter to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Peters said.
The driver was pinned inside the truck and had to be freed by rescue workers. The driver was transported to a hospital by a Medstar ambulance in an unknown condition.
Investigators believe the driver lost control when he swerved to avoid stop-and-go traffic and then the truck hit a concrete wall, Peters said.
"That's when the vehicle rolled," Peters said.
Before it was cleared early Friday afternoon, the wreckage covered the entire highway, allowing westbound traffic to pass only on the shoulder, according to Traffic.com.
The wreck caused a traffic backup for about three miles in both directions, with onlookers clogging the eastbound lanes, Peters said.
The single-vehicle rollover wreck happened around 11 a.m., said Sgt. Eric Peters, police spokesman.
The woman, who was a passenger in the dump truck, was taken by helicopter to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Peters said.
The driver was pinned inside the truck and had to be freed by rescue workers. The driver was transported to a hospital by a Medstar ambulance in an unknown condition.
Investigators believe the driver lost control when he swerved to avoid stop-and-go traffic and then the truck hit a concrete wall, Peters said.
"That's when the vehicle rolled," Peters said.
Before it was cleared early Friday afternoon, the wreckage covered the entire highway, allowing westbound traffic to pass only on the shoulder, according to Traffic.com.
The wreck caused a traffic backup for about three miles in both directions, with onlookers clogging the eastbound lanes, Peters said.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Weatherford Man Pleads Guilty in Death Case
A 49-year-old man pleaded guilty today to a charge of racing causing death in a January 2007 collision that killed Willie "B.B." Fielder, a 17-year-old Weatherford High School football standout, according to a news release from the Parker County district attorney's office.
The prosecution recommended that Rodney Swindle receive a 10-year probated sentence, a $2,000 fine and 300 hours of community service, along with several other conditions of probation, Jeff Swain, Parker County assistant district attorney, wrote in the release.
Swindle was a suspect in a collision that occurred about 3 p.m. on Jan. 8, as Fielder, who was driving a 1997 Dodge Avenger to track practice, turned north onto South Main Street from Cleburne Avenue. A southbound Chevrolet pickup hit the car in the driver's door, police said.
Police said two vehicles were accelerating to the top of a bottleneck on South Main Street, but neither would allow the other to pass. Fielder died as a result of the injuries he suffered in that collision, police said. Robert Earnest Wilkerson, 31, of Granbury was also indicted in the case.
A sentencing hearing for Swindle has been scheduled for 9.a.m. on July 17 to determine the amount of jail time he could receive as a part of his probation.
In felony cases, a judge may assess up to 6 months in jail as a condition of probation, Swain said in the release.
No alcohol or drug use was involved in the case, according to the release.
The prosecution recommended that Rodney Swindle receive a 10-year probated sentence, a $2,000 fine and 300 hours of community service, along with several other conditions of probation, Jeff Swain, Parker County assistant district attorney, wrote in the release.
Swindle was a suspect in a collision that occurred about 3 p.m. on Jan. 8, as Fielder, who was driving a 1997 Dodge Avenger to track practice, turned north onto South Main Street from Cleburne Avenue. A southbound Chevrolet pickup hit the car in the driver's door, police said.
Police said two vehicles were accelerating to the top of a bottleneck on South Main Street, but neither would allow the other to pass. Fielder died as a result of the injuries he suffered in that collision, police said. Robert Earnest Wilkerson, 31, of Granbury was also indicted in the case.
A sentencing hearing for Swindle has been scheduled for 9.a.m. on July 17 to determine the amount of jail time he could receive as a part of his probation.
In felony cases, a judge may assess up to 6 months in jail as a condition of probation, Swain said in the release.
No alcohol or drug use was involved in the case, according to the release.
Florida Plane Crash Started Journey in Collin County
Texas Plane Crash - Plane accident Lawyer - Collin County wrongful death
Quality Powder Coating's president and a company pilot were aboard a small plane that crashed in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida on Wednesday afternoon, the Carrollton company said this morning.
The company identified two of the five people on the plane as president Roland Schurrer and pilot Steve Barrows. Two other people on board were believed to have been customers of the company that coats metal products.
"We have not received official confirmation from the NTSB regarding the status of those who were on the airplane," the company said. "Our thoughts and concerns continue to be focused on members of our company family who were on the airplane and the members of their respective families."
The U.S. Coast Guard searched with boats and helicopters about 20 miles west of Port Richey for the plane, which took off Wednesday morning from the McKinney airport. Late Wednesday night, searchers found a two-mile debris field.
“It was plane wreckage,” said Petty Officer Rob Simpson of the Coast Guard. “We haven’t been able to verify that it’s from that plane, but it was within the search area.”
The twin-engine Cessna aircraft is registered to Q4 Aviation, LLC, which shares a Carrollton address with Quality Powder Coating, according to public records.
A 33-year-old Dallas man who has a pilot’s license shares an address with one of the Quality Powder Coating officials, according to records. Reached by phone, a relative of the man asked that “you respect our privacy.”
Quality Powder spokesman Andy Brown said those on the plane were headed to a meeting in Florida for a couple of days.
The twin engine Cessna left from Collin County Regional Airport en route to Tampa about 10 a.m. The Federal Aviation Administration says air traffic controllers in Jacksonville lost radio and radar contact with the plane at 1:52 p.m. after it reported encountering turbulence.
Anthony Reynes, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Ruskin, Fla., told the Tampa Tribune that a line of showers and thunderstorms was in the Gulf of Mexico at the time the plane dropped off the radar Wednesday afternoon.
J. Lynn Lunsford, an FAA spokesman, said that in the last radio contact, the pilot of the plane “reported heavy turbulence, loss of control and inverted flight.” The plane appeared to be flying at about 5,000 feet at that time.
Bad weather was reported in the area. Lunsford said the plane was flying in “IFR conditions,” which means that the pilot was relying on instruments.
Simpson, of the Coast Guard, said the search was “going to continue through the night.”
Quality Powder Coating's president and a company pilot were aboard a small plane that crashed in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida on Wednesday afternoon, the Carrollton company said this morning.
The company identified two of the five people on the plane as president Roland Schurrer and pilot Steve Barrows. Two other people on board were believed to have been customers of the company that coats metal products.
"We have not received official confirmation from the NTSB regarding the status of those who were on the airplane," the company said. "Our thoughts and concerns continue to be focused on members of our company family who were on the airplane and the members of their respective families."
The U.S. Coast Guard searched with boats and helicopters about 20 miles west of Port Richey for the plane, which took off Wednesday morning from the McKinney airport. Late Wednesday night, searchers found a two-mile debris field.
“It was plane wreckage,” said Petty Officer Rob Simpson of the Coast Guard. “We haven’t been able to verify that it’s from that plane, but it was within the search area.”
The twin-engine Cessna aircraft is registered to Q4 Aviation, LLC, which shares a Carrollton address with Quality Powder Coating, according to public records.
A 33-year-old Dallas man who has a pilot’s license shares an address with one of the Quality Powder Coating officials, according to records. Reached by phone, a relative of the man asked that “you respect our privacy.”
Quality Powder spokesman Andy Brown said those on the plane were headed to a meeting in Florida for a couple of days.
The twin engine Cessna left from Collin County Regional Airport en route to Tampa about 10 a.m. The Federal Aviation Administration says air traffic controllers in Jacksonville lost radio and radar contact with the plane at 1:52 p.m. after it reported encountering turbulence.
Anthony Reynes, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Ruskin, Fla., told the Tampa Tribune that a line of showers and thunderstorms was in the Gulf of Mexico at the time the plane dropped off the radar Wednesday afternoon.
J. Lynn Lunsford, an FAA spokesman, said that in the last radio contact, the pilot of the plane “reported heavy turbulence, loss of control and inverted flight.” The plane appeared to be flying at about 5,000 feet at that time.
Bad weather was reported in the area. Lunsford said the plane was flying in “IFR conditions,” which means that the pilot was relying on instruments.
Simpson, of the Coast Guard, said the search was “going to continue through the night.”
Monday, July 6, 2009
Update: Gainesville Car Wreck Killed Two
A Fort Worth man and his teen-age grandson died from injuries they received Sunday in a multi-vehicle wreck near Gainesville.
The victims were Gervious Hinkle, age unavailable, and his 13-year-old grandson, Casey Ishak, also of Fort Worth, said Trooper Mark Tackett, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety highway patrol.
They were northbound on Interstate 35 about 2:30 p.m. Sunday in a 1996 Ford Explorer when they encountered a traffic delay from road construction in the area, Tackett said.
When they were about six miles south of Gainesville, a tractor-trailer driven by Randy Crume of Harrah, Okla., approached the slow-moving northbound traffic, Tackett said.
"Traffic was backed up and flowing slowly due to construction," Tackett said. "Crume failed to control speed and struck the rear of the stopped traffic."
The impact caused "multiple collisions," Tackett said.
Eight vehicles and the tractor-trailer, a 2006 International, were damaged in the chain-reaction wreck.
Hinkle was killed, and his grandson was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. The boy was pronounced dead at 3:39 p.m. in the JPS emergency room, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office.
Another person in the Ford Explorer was in critical condition following the wreck, Tackett said. That person's name was not immediately available.
No charges were filed by Monday morning, but Tackett said troopers were still investigating the wreck.
This was the second time in recent weeks that North Texans were killed in a chain-reaction wreck involving a big rig.
A family of three from Frisco and a relative were among 10 people fatally hurt June 26 in a pileup on Interstate 44 near Miami in far northeast Oklahoma.
Killed were Randall Hayes, 38, and his 7-year-old son, Ethan. Hayes' wife, Shelby Hayes, 35, died two days later at a hospital in Missouri. Her mother, Cynthia Olson, 55, of Crossroads in Denton County, also died in the crash.
A tractor-trailer slammed into cars that had stopped on the highway because of a previous accident, according to reports.
The victims were Gervious Hinkle, age unavailable, and his 13-year-old grandson, Casey Ishak, also of Fort Worth, said Trooper Mark Tackett, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety highway patrol.
They were northbound on Interstate 35 about 2:30 p.m. Sunday in a 1996 Ford Explorer when they encountered a traffic delay from road construction in the area, Tackett said.
When they were about six miles south of Gainesville, a tractor-trailer driven by Randy Crume of Harrah, Okla., approached the slow-moving northbound traffic, Tackett said.
"Traffic was backed up and flowing slowly due to construction," Tackett said. "Crume failed to control speed and struck the rear of the stopped traffic."
The impact caused "multiple collisions," Tackett said.
Eight vehicles and the tractor-trailer, a 2006 International, were damaged in the chain-reaction wreck.
Hinkle was killed, and his grandson was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. The boy was pronounced dead at 3:39 p.m. in the JPS emergency room, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office.
Another person in the Ford Explorer was in critical condition following the wreck, Tackett said. That person's name was not immediately available.
No charges were filed by Monday morning, but Tackett said troopers were still investigating the wreck.
This was the second time in recent weeks that North Texans were killed in a chain-reaction wreck involving a big rig.
A family of three from Frisco and a relative were among 10 people fatally hurt June 26 in a pileup on Interstate 44 near Miami in far northeast Oklahoma.
Killed were Randall Hayes, 38, and his 7-year-old son, Ethan. Hayes' wife, Shelby Hayes, 35, died two days later at a hospital in Missouri. Her mother, Cynthia Olson, 55, of Crossroads in Denton County, also died in the crash.
A tractor-trailer slammed into cars that had stopped on the highway because of a previous accident, according to reports.
Austin Boy Dies a Week After Car Wreck
One of 8-year-old Frederick Crawford's favorite pastimes was going to check out movies and books from the University Hills Branch of the Austin Public Library on Loyola Lane, a few blocks from his father's East Austin home.
Hurrying to the library June 25, the boy was hit by a car while crossing the 6800 block of Manor Road at Rockhurst Lane. He died Friday night at Dell Children's Medical Center.
Freddie, as he was known, would have been a third-grader this fall at Harris Elementary School, said his father, Tony Crawford. He had eight sisters, a brother and two half-brothers.
Before he was hit, the family had just come home from Dottie Jordan Park and some of his sisters had returned from summer school.
"It was just too hot to do anything," Tony Crawford said. "They liked to go to the library to use computers or (check out) books and movies."
After leaving the house, Freddie and four of his sisters crossed two lanes of Manor Road at Rockhurst. They reached a traffic island in the middle of the road, but Freddie continued to run, crossing the road's two remaining lanes, where he was hit by a car, his father said.
Austin police Cpl. Scott Perry said Saturday that the incident was under investigation.
Tony Crawford said that children in the neighborhood often cross Manor Road at Rockhurst Lane near his home to get to a shopping center. He said he is concerned about other children because there is no stoplight or crosswalk at the intersection; he would like a crosswalk and yellow lights put on the road.
"They can cross at both lights (north and south of the intersection), but most of the kids, they don't go to the light," Crawford said. "They try to cross in the middle of the road to get to the H-E-B side."
Freddie's mother, Stephanie White, said Freddie was an energetic child.
White said Freddie lived with her, but often visited his father and siblings.
"He was so outgoing and was always laughing or smiling," White said. "He also liked to draw and watch cartoons."
Crawford said his son liked to run and was generally a happy person.
"I just hate that he left early at a young age," Crawford said. "If you'd have known him and seen the way his eyes looked at you, you'd fall in love with him."
Hurrying to the library June 25, the boy was hit by a car while crossing the 6800 block of Manor Road at Rockhurst Lane. He died Friday night at Dell Children's Medical Center.
Freddie, as he was known, would have been a third-grader this fall at Harris Elementary School, said his father, Tony Crawford. He had eight sisters, a brother and two half-brothers.
Before he was hit, the family had just come home from Dottie Jordan Park and some of his sisters had returned from summer school.
"It was just too hot to do anything," Tony Crawford said. "They liked to go to the library to use computers or (check out) books and movies."
After leaving the house, Freddie and four of his sisters crossed two lanes of Manor Road at Rockhurst. They reached a traffic island in the middle of the road, but Freddie continued to run, crossing the road's two remaining lanes, where he was hit by a car, his father said.
Austin police Cpl. Scott Perry said Saturday that the incident was under investigation.
Tony Crawford said that children in the neighborhood often cross Manor Road at Rockhurst Lane near his home to get to a shopping center. He said he is concerned about other children because there is no stoplight or crosswalk at the intersection; he would like a crosswalk and yellow lights put on the road.
"They can cross at both lights (north and south of the intersection), but most of the kids, they don't go to the light," Crawford said. "They try to cross in the middle of the road to get to the H-E-B side."
Freddie's mother, Stephanie White, said Freddie was an energetic child.
White said Freddie lived with her, but often visited his father and siblings.
"He was so outgoing and was always laughing or smiling," White said. "He also liked to draw and watch cartoons."
Crawford said his son liked to run and was generally a happy person.
"I just hate that he left early at a young age," Crawford said. "If you'd have known him and seen the way his eyes looked at you, you'd fall in love with him."
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