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Texting Teen Takes Down Pumper

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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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  1. Mike "FossilMedic" Ward says

    Nice that the Alltel commercial before the news item is selling “unlimited texting”

    on May 23, 2010 @ 4:05 am.
  2. Mike "FossilMedic" Ward says

    Nice that the Alltel commercial before the news item is selling “unlimited texting”

    on May 23, 2010 @ 8:05 am.
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