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One person was injured after an accident in west Houston Thursday.
It happened in the 18000 block of South Park View Drive.
The speed limit there is 30 miles per hour, but police believe the woman behind the wheel was driving much faster.
Investigators tell us the woman, who's believed to be in her 30s, was driving east on South Park View toward Barker Cypress when she lost control of her Dodge Challenger, hitting a median then an oak tree.
A 69-year-old woman has been killed in a collision with a dump truck in Frisco.
Police say just before 1 p.m. Thursday, Betty Tucich, 69, rear-ended a dump truck on U.S. 380 near Preston Road.
Tucich was driving a Honda minivan eastbound and hit the truck as it was coming to a stop at a red light, police said.
Authorities are still investigating what exactly caused the collision.
Thursday morning on U.S. 59 in El Campo.
The wreck occurred about 7:15 a.m. on the northbound lanes of the freeway near Wharton County Road 404, according to the Department of Public Safety.
Three inmates from the Texas Department Criminal Justice as well as two TDCJ sergeants were in the van, said spokesman Robert Hurst.
Hurst said all five people were taken to the hospital in El Campo. Details of their injuries and conditions were not released.