A man was seriously injured Wednesday afternoon after he crashed a car into a house in a Fort Bend County neighborhood while fleeing from a sheriff's deputy.
The incident happened around 1:20 p.m. in Pecan Grove, which is near the city of Richmond.
Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Terriann Carlson said the chase began when a deputy driving a marked patrol car was passed by a speeding car while driving on Harlem Road near the Jester 1 prison unit, not far from the neighborhood.
The deputy pulled the car over, but the driver sped away when the deputy walked up to the vehicle, Carlson said.
The car went into Pecan Grove and the deputy lost site of him. A short time later, the car crashed into a house in the 1900 block of Rock Fence Drive and came to rest on an oak tree.
The car caught fire and the driver, identified as 39-year-old David Richard Howard of Houston, had to be pulled out by sheriff's deputies who arrived on the scene.
Carlson said Howard was knocked onconscious in the crash and deputies had to shoot out the windows in order to rescue him.
Howard was flown by helicopter to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, where he remains in serious but stable condition.
Authorities don't know why Howard fled from the deputy. Nobody in the house was injured.
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Maybe this will be a lesson for the others that try to escape
Maybe this will be a lesson for the others that try to escape the police cars. That guy was lucky he didn't die, considering all this problems together I guess the auto insurance coverage is the last thing on his mind right now.
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