FORT WORTH — A station wagon driver, who police say was speeding away from an earlier wreck, died Friday evening at the hospital after he lost control of the vehicle that crashed into a southwest Fort Worth home, a police spokeswoman said.
The man, who had not been identified by late Friday, was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital with “life-threatening” injuries, Matt Zavadsky, a MedStar spokesman, said.Officer Sharron Neal, police spokeswoman reported at about 8:15 p.m. that the man had died.A boy who climbed out of the vehicle was taken to Cook Children’s Medical Center with minor injuries, Zavadsky said. Neal said the boy, 6, “was secured in a child-safety seat, and suffered no significant injuries.”The wreck was reported at 3:10 p.m. at the intersection of Culver Avenue and eastbound Southwest Boulevard (Texas 183).Neal said the man, who was driving a 2005 Dodge Magnum, was believed to have been involved in an earlier wreck, about a half mile to the southeast near the intersection of Southwest Boulevard and West Vickery Boulevard. A man driving a pickup was hurt in the first wreck, but he was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Neal said.The driver of the Dodge, however, kept going at a high speed northwest on the busy highway. Officer James Williams said the Dodge crossed a median, smacked into a fire hydrant and went airborne into the garage of Leslie Brammer’s corner house. Parts from the hydrant were scattered in Brammer’s yard.Brammer, 77, said he was near the center of his house, getting ready to pick up his 17-year-old granddaughter from school.“It was bang, boom, kapow!” Brammer exclaimed. “I opened the door into the garage real quick, and it was dust, insulation and sheet rock falling.” A cloud of dust rolled into the house where Brammer has lived for 20 years.Brammer said he ran to the Dodge, which had landed on its roof. He saw a boy come out of the wreckage with a scratch on his forehead.But the driver, he said, was stuck in the mangled car.“He was upside down and bleeding all over the driveway,” Brammer said.Brammer, who shares the house with his daughter and granddaughter, said they would not be able to stay there Friday night because the wreck caused all his utilities to be cut off. His 2005 Chevrolet pickup, which was parked in the driveway, was damaged. It was carried away on a flatbed wrecker.Still, he kept smiling.“Ain’t nothing you can do about it,” he said, “except call the insurance people.”
Bill Miller, 817-390-7684 Twitter: @Bill_MillerST
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