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  • Santo Fire and EMS spokesman Brian Gordon said Labor Day was a busy one for the department as they responded to four separate wrecks on Farm-to-Market Road 4, U.S. Highway 281 South and Interstate 20. Gordon said four of the wrecks involved motorcycles. Brian Gordon/Courtesy

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September 9, 2009

Labor Day weekend results in officials working wrecks

By Christin Coyne
ccoyne@mineralwellsindex.com

While the Palo Pinto County Sheriff’s Office and the Mineral Wells Police Department reported a relatively quiet weekend, EMS responders and the Department of Public Safety worked at least nine wrecks in the county over the weekend.

“It was a busy Labor Day for Santo Fire and EMS,” Brian Gordon, spokesperson for Santo Volunteer Fire Department, said. “Santo emergency personnel were dispatched to four separate motor vehicle crashes, three involving motorcycles.”

“In several of the incidents, the injured persons were transported by air ambulances to local hospitals,” Gordon said.

A spokesperson for DPS said one wreck occurred on I-20 around 2:15 p.m. Monday when a pickup lost a right tire tread and a motorcycle traveling in the same lane behind the truck was unable to stop and slid into the median.

The driver of the pickup was not injured but the motorcycle rider, a 65-year-old man from Flower Mound, was thrown from his vehicle and taken by helicopter to John Peter Smith hospital.

A 16-year-old teen from Lipan was also transported to Palo Pinto General Hospital after he lost control Saturday evening while traveling westbound around a curve on Natty Flat Road and struck a utility pole.

Six wrecks near Lipan, Santo and Mineral Wells were reported Monday, according to information from the Palo Pinto Sheriff’s Office.

Information on the other wrecks involving injuries was not available Tuesday morning.

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