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POLICE: Night race down 18th Street sends trio to local hospital
Three people were injured tonight, at least one of them seriously, and another person was in custody after Waco police say a pickup truck racing another vehicle south on 18th Street collided with a white Mazda Protege eastbound on Franklin Avenue.
The crash occurred just after 8 p.m., and at least three people were taken to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, Waco Police Sgt. Gary Harrison said. The driver of the Mazda, he said, was in “extremely serious, critical condition” tonight.
Victims’ names and conditions weren’t available at 9:45 p.m.
Police were questioning the driver of a blue Dodge Ram pickup truck that Harrison said fled the scene after the crash. However, no arrests had yet been made.
Sgt. Harrison said he had no information on the vehicle that the pickup truck driver was allegedly racing at the time of the crash.
As police investigators took pictures of the scene, the driver’s side door of the Mazda lay dislodged in the grass along 18th Street.
The intersection of 18th Street and Franklin Avenue was closed off to traffic for more than an hour.
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