Three Killed On Three Dallas Area Roads Overnight
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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Three people were killed on Dallas area roads and highways late Saturday night into Sunday morning.
Dallas Police say around 11:30 p.m. someone was walking westbound in the eastbound lanes of traffic at 1800 E. Ledbetter Drive.
Witnesses tell police a man stopped in front of one vehicle that stopped in time to keep from hitting him. The man then walked around the vehicle and continued walking down the road until an SUV struck him. A third vehicle didn't see the man on the ground and drove over him. Police say he died at the scene.
Then around midnight on I-45, police say a driver and passenger pulled over on the shoulder behind an abandoned vehicle. The driver walked up to it when an SUV struck the back of the driver's vehicle pushing him into the abandoned vehicle, crushing him in between the two vehicles. The passenger suffered a fractured neck from the impact. The driver of the black Ford Expedition that hit the car got out and ran off.
The third deadly incident also happened around midnight when a car was traveling southbound on the Webb Chapel Extension approaching the intersection for W. Northwest Highway.
The vehicle sped into the intersection when police say "the bottom of the vehicle hit the street and went airborne."
The vehicle hit a curb and continued onto its side into the grass for 225 feet.
The driver was ejected and died.
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