HCSO: Passenger dies after car slams into tree in Cypress

CYPRESS, Texas — The Harris County Sheriff’s Workplace is investigating what led as much as a lethal crash early Friday morning.

A HCSO sergeant mentioned they received a name at round 2 a.m. concerning the accident on Telge Street.

Deputies discovered one car with heavy harm on the passenger’s aspect. The feminine passenger was pronounced lifeless on the scene.

HCSO Sgt. Beaty mentioned the car was going southbound on Telge however was discovered on the northbound aspect of the street.

Proof means that the motive force misplaced management of the car after it drove out of a lane and struck a raised curb.

Deputies mentioned the car swerved into the street’s middle grass median and the passenger’s aspect crashed right into a tree. The car continued into the northbound lanes and got here to an uncontrolled relaxation.

The motive force and passenger are believed to be a pair of their mid to late 20s, deputies mentioned. 

Sgt. Beaty mentioned the motive force was taken to a close-by trauma middle with accidents to her head. She allegedly appeared to point out indicators of intoxication, so the Sheriff’s Workplace opened a DWI investigation.

A witness instructed deputies that they noticed the identical car leaving a bar down the road earlier than the crash. 

“Effectively nothing’s ‘lower and dry’ although. We’ll do our processing and likewise do as a lot as we will on the hospital to evaluate if that driver is and was intoxicated on the time,” Sgt. Beaty mentioned.

The sergeant mentioned the car might need been rushing on the time and that might’ve performed an element within the crash.

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