ChrisCantSkate
01-04-2003, 05:41 PM
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistor...politan/1724283
Teens sought after fatality on highway
Pair may have moved traffic cones on scene
By TERRY KLIEWER
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle
Two teenage boys seen at a highway construction site early New Year's morning were being sought by state police Friday as the suspects who moved orange traffic cones onto Loop 494 near New Caney, triggering a fatal collision.
The accident, which may have happened moments after the cones were moved, killed Colleen Rachele Atwood, 28, of the 6000 block of Hollister in Houston. Injured but released Thursday from LBJ Hospital in Houston was Betty Arnold Burleson, 43, of New Caney.
The women's cars collided in a fiery wreck on Loop 494 north of Community Drive in east Montgomery County about 4:40 a.m. Wednesday.
Emergency crews were unable to save Atwood from the flames that engulfed her Pontiac Firebird, but Burleson was rescued from her Buick sedan and taken to LBJ for treatment.
The accident scene is near a Loop 494 construction site where a series of traffic cones originally had been set out on the highway shoulder to warn drivers of the hazard there, according to state police.
However, at some point before the pre-dawn wreck, four or five of the cones were moved onto Loop 494 so as to redirect northbound traffic onto the southbound lanes, setting the stage for the fatal collision, investigators said.
State police talked with a New Caney area convenience store clerk who reported she had seen two teenagers handling the cones at the construction site as she drove to work about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Another employee at the store said that when his co-worker arrived for work, she immediately headed across the street to where a state trooper was parked to tell him about the boys.
"About the time she got into the street, he turned on his lights and took off," the employee said, referring to the trooper. "I guess the accident had happened between when she saw the boys and when she got to the store."
The employee who answered the phone at the store Friday declined to identify himself or his co-worker.
The suspects were described as white, 16 to 18 years old, about 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-8, and slender to medium in build.
One was wearing black baggy pants with a dragon on the left leg, a hip-length leather coat and burgundy knit cap, according to a witness. The other, also in black baggy pants, wore a camouflage-print fleece jacket. He had close-cut black hair with blond spikes at the front, investigators said.
Investigators planned to check the traffic cones for fingerprints as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, Montgomery County Crime Stoppers announced a $1,000 reward for information leading to the identification of the suspects. The phone number is 800-392-STOP.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the state police at 281-577-8972 or 281-517-1300.
i hope those kids receive a horrible sentance
Teens sought after fatality on highway
Pair may have moved traffic cones on scene
By TERRY KLIEWER
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle
Two teenage boys seen at a highway construction site early New Year's morning were being sought by state police Friday as the suspects who moved orange traffic cones onto Loop 494 near New Caney, triggering a fatal collision.
The accident, which may have happened moments after the cones were moved, killed Colleen Rachele Atwood, 28, of the 6000 block of Hollister in Houston. Injured but released Thursday from LBJ Hospital in Houston was Betty Arnold Burleson, 43, of New Caney.
The women's cars collided in a fiery wreck on Loop 494 north of Community Drive in east Montgomery County about 4:40 a.m. Wednesday.
Emergency crews were unable to save Atwood from the flames that engulfed her Pontiac Firebird, but Burleson was rescued from her Buick sedan and taken to LBJ for treatment.
The accident scene is near a Loop 494 construction site where a series of traffic cones originally had been set out on the highway shoulder to warn drivers of the hazard there, according to state police.
However, at some point before the pre-dawn wreck, four or five of the cones were moved onto Loop 494 so as to redirect northbound traffic onto the southbound lanes, setting the stage for the fatal collision, investigators said.
State police talked with a New Caney area convenience store clerk who reported she had seen two teenagers handling the cones at the construction site as she drove to work about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Another employee at the store said that when his co-worker arrived for work, she immediately headed across the street to where a state trooper was parked to tell him about the boys.
"About the time she got into the street, he turned on his lights and took off," the employee said, referring to the trooper. "I guess the accident had happened between when she saw the boys and when she got to the store."
The employee who answered the phone at the store Friday declined to identify himself or his co-worker.
The suspects were described as white, 16 to 18 years old, about 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-8, and slender to medium in build.
One was wearing black baggy pants with a dragon on the left leg, a hip-length leather coat and burgundy knit cap, according to a witness. The other, also in black baggy pants, wore a camouflage-print fleece jacket. He had close-cut black hair with blond spikes at the front, investigators said.
Investigators planned to check the traffic cones for fingerprints as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, Montgomery County Crime Stoppers announced a $1,000 reward for information leading to the identification of the suspects. The phone number is 800-392-STOP.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the state police at 281-577-8972 or 281-517-1300.
i hope those kids receive a horrible sentance