A KATY, TEXAS, TEENAGER IS HOSPITALIZED this morning and an I-10 Fire Department pumper is laid up for a long stay in the truck hospital following the 18-yr.-old’s driving her car into the front end of the fire engine.

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Police say that she was driving westbound on the Interstate 10 service road and “texting” when she drove through a red traffic light and smashed into the front end of the West I-10 Fire Department truck that was traveling southbound from SH 99. Two firefighters were treated for minor injuries and released.
KRIV-TV Ch. 7 has this video report:
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Nice that the Alltel commercial before the news item is selling “unlimited texting”
Nice that the Alltel commercial before the news item is selling “unlimited texting”