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Fatal Chain-Reaction Wreck Shuts Down East Loop

Car Pushed Under Big Rig

POSTED: Wednesday, January 25, 2006

A fatal chain-reaction accident shut down the East Loop in northeast Houston Wednesday afternoon.

It happened at about 12:45 p.m. when a tow truck driver could not stop in time and slammed into several vehicles that had stopped on the freeway at the McCarty exit.

A driver in a Honda died after his vehicle was pushed under an 18-wheeler.

The tow truck driver was thrown from his vehicle, but his condition is not yet known.

The northbound lanes of the road were shut down while police investigated the accident.

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