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Highway 146 closed after tanker, sedan collide
By Chris Paschenko
The Daily News
Published November 13, 2009
TEXAS CITY — State Highway 146 was closed for seven hours Thursday, after a fiery, head-on crash that left two people critically injured, authorities said.
A Chevrolet Lumina was traveling south shortly before 6 a.m. when it entered the northbound lane and struck a tractor-trailer hauling a liquid chicken steroid, Sgt. Joe Stanton, a Texas City police spokesman, said.
The collision caused the Lumina to erupt into flames, but the driver, a 45-year-old man, and his 34-year-old male passenger, escaped the car before it ignited, Stanton said.
“The tanker was hauling Alimet Feed Supplement methionine hydroxy analogue,” Stanton said.
“This material is a nonhazardous chicken steroid. The material was never expelled from the tanker, and the public was never at any risk of exposure.”
A medical helicopter flew both men to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where they were in critical condition Thursday morning, Stanton said.
Police didn’t release the men’s names.
The tractor-trailer driver wasn’t injured, Stanton said.
Police blocked north lanes at FM 517 and south lanes at FM 646, shortly after the 6:50 a.m. crash.
The lanes remained closed until 1 p.m.
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