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A portion of Interstate 10 was closed overnight while emergency responders' cleared the roadway of flaming wreckage.
Police said two vehicles collided near an 18-wheeler and caught fire. The accident happened around 1 a.m. on eastbound I-10, near Huebner Road.
Information from the scene indicated the two drivers were taken to an area hospital in unknown condition.
The driver of the trailer-truck was not injured.
A crash involving two big rigs snarled early morning traffic on the eastbound 10 Freeway through Pomona on Tuesday.
The crash occurred shortly after 2 a.m. just west of North White Avenue. All eastbound lanes were initially shut down, but one lane was reopened at approximately 5 a.m., letting traffic squeeze through. Two more lanes were reopened about 30 minutes later, and the remaining lanes were reopened shortly before 7 a.m.
A 25-year-old man from Los Angeles is facing multiple counts of felony endangerment, assault and aggravated assault after attempting to take the wheel of a Greyhound bus en route from Los Angeles to Dallas early today, causing a crash that injured two dozen people, authorities said.
Two women died Sunday night after their car ricocheted across Interstate 10. The cause of the crash is under investigation by the State Police but the women were likely driving above the speed limit, according to a spokeswoman.
Susan Perez of Metairie, 31, was driving east near Cleary Avenue when her car, a 2004 Toyota Camry, suddenly veered to the left and hit the barrier, then crossed all eastbound lanes and hit the right guardrail. Perez and her passenger, Karla Ordonez of New Orleans, 35, were pronounced dead at the scene.
A 64-year-old man died Thursday night in a traffic crash when he was thrown from his car when it rolled over on Interstate 10 in east Harris County.
The single-vehicle wreck happened about 9 p.m. in the 100 block of East Freeway near Spur 330, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies said the man was driving a 2001 Honda sedan eastbound on the freeway when he lost control of the car and slammed into a guardrail. The car rolled over and landed on the guardrail. He was thrown from the vehicle.