Texting while driving deemed as dangerous as DWI
Baytown area police note SIDNE findings and safety studies show texting behind the wheel impairs reaction as much as alcohol. National and university studies cite 23 times higher crash risk and average 4.6 seconds eyes-off-road, equating to 100 yards at 55 mph and potential serious injury or death.
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Galveston
Baytown
National Safety Council
University of Utah
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
Armed Robbery Suspects Sought After $55 Theft
Clifford said the robbery involved two men about six feet tall wearing black pants. One wore a hooded camouflage jacket with a gun, the other a black jacket. Detectives are checking similar armed robberies to see if cases are connected.
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Clifford
SIDNE program teaches impaired driving dangers in Baytown
Baytown police highlighted impaired driving risks with Operation SIDNE, using go karts and tools like Intoxiclock and the Distract A Match to educate youth and adults. The event drew officials and Mothers Against Drunk Driving representatives as City Manager Garry Brumback touted early education to reduce DW I fatalities in Harris County.
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Baytown
Harris County
Mike Holden
Holden
Rose Brown
Mothers Against
Doug Sturdevant
DD 4 Hire
Garry Brumback
Brumback
Kelly Martin
Shors
GCCISD approves classroom tech upgrades and labs
GCCISD Board voted to buy teacher presentation stations at $180,195 to enhance instruction. High schools will get 30 per campus, juniors 17, elementary 8. totals per campus are 66, 26, and 16 stations respectively. Also approved were mobile curriculum labs at Peter Hyland Center for $61,800 to provide Internet access and software. After purchases, $292,765 remains in the technology fund.
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Peter Hyland Alternative Learning Center
Curve Car Crash Damages Baytown Restaurant, Plans New Building
Mac recalls past wrecks at Baytown Seafood Restaurant after a Ford Expedition plowed into the exterior wall and a flowerbed. No interior damage this time. one earlier fatal crash nearby involved Eugenio Lara Jr. and two injured passengers. The owner plans a move to a new site with a heavy-duty light pole to prevent future incidents and aims to complete construction in about three months.
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Baytown Seafood Restaurant
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Mace
West Main
Lee Drive
Former Texas Rep. Wilson dies at 76 in Dallas
Charlie Wilson, the Texas congressman famed for backroom deals funding Afghan mujahedeen, died at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin at 76 after respiratory failure. He served Texas 2nd District from 1973 to 1996 and earned the nickname Good Time Charlie for his hard drinking lifestyle.
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Wilson
Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin
Yana Ogletree
Washington
Charlie
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