One person has died and three others have been hospitalised after a suspected impaired driver struck a car side-on in Houston, sending both vehicles into utility poles and bringing down power lines.
Houston police and fire crews were called to the 4400 block of Fannin Street at about 4.15am on Sunday. The city’s incident log recorded the collision as a major crash involving a fatality. ([cohweb.houstontx.gov](https://cohweb.houstontx.gov/ActiveIncidents/Combined.aspx?Mobile=false%3FMobile%3Dfalse%3FMobile%3Dfalse%3FMobile%3Dfalse&utm_source=openai))
Houston crash leaves one dead
Investigators said a white pick-up truck was travelling along Fannin Street when it broadsided a Kia. The force of the impact pushed the vehicles down the road and into power poles.
The Kia’s driver, its only occupant, was pronounced dead at the scene. Five people were inside the pick-up, most of them juveniles, and three were taken to hospital with injuries described as minor to moderate.
A sergeant from the Houston Police Department’s Vehicular Crimes Division said officers believed the pick-up driver was impaired. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office has accepted charges, although investigators were still determining whether the driver is 18 or a juvenile.
The collision damaged utility infrastructure and caused a localised power cut in the immediate area. Officials had not given an estimated time for repairs, and the identities of those involved had not been released.
