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The Ford truck in the foreground was reported to have run the red light and caused the three-car collision. The driver of the truck, with cap, is visible
walking towards law enforcement officers and the driver of the FI50 he hit is standing beside his white truck next to the fire truck in this photo.
No injuries in multi-car wreck at Loop 564, Hwy. 69
No injuries were reported in a
multi-vehicle collision at Loop 564
and Highway 69 north of Mineola
late Friday afternoon but one driver
was ticketed for running a red light.
First responders were dispatched
Friday at 3:49 p.m. to what was de-
scribed as a four-vehicle collision at
the intersection.
One of the witnesses to the acci-
dent was Ryan James. He and Jason
Sellers were approaching the inter-
section coming from out of town.
"We were just pulling up/' he said.
The driver of a Ford truck for D.L.
Lennon Inc. Construction Com-
pany, Roger Thompson of Cumby,
ran a red light on the Loop headed
toward Mineola and crashed into
the passenger side of a northbound
F150 Firetrol Protection Systems
truck driven by Shane Estoll of
Mineola.
The impact spun EstolTs truck
clockwise, hitting a Ford Escape
stopped in the left turn lane driven
by Patsy Hill of Mineola and com-
ing to rest within barely a couple
inches of a Charger driven by
DeAnn Cude of Mineola. All ve-
hicle occupants were wearing seat-
belts. Hill's granddaughter was also
in the Escape with her.
Cude, who was sitting at the red
light, saw the accident about to hap-
pen. She said "Oh my God," went
through her mind, she covered
her face and tried to shrink down.
"There was nothing you can do,"
she said.
The construction truck driver was
ticketed for running a red light. The
accident was investigated by De-
partment of Public Safety Trooper
Joshua Sneed. Members of the Min-
eola Fire Department and Mineola
Police Department assisted at the
scene.
MLOTA to host 23rd Quilt Celebration
The Mineola League of
the Arts annual Quilt Cel-
ebration will be held Oct.
11 and 12 at the league
building on West Blair
Street with the public in-
vited.
Quitters from the East
Texas area and beyond
will exhibit their work
during this judged com-
petition.Exhibition hours
for the show are Friday,
Oct. 11, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
and Saturday, Oct. 10, 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
The drawing for the
2013 raffle quilt "White
Chocolate" will be held at
the close of the show on
Saturday. Raffle tickets
are located on the league
web page or can be pur-
chased at the League of-
fice. They will also be
available during the quilt
show. Chances are $1
each or a packet of six for
$5.
The sales room will fea-
ture many of the league's
talented artists and craft-
ers who will have items
for sale, event organizers
said. There will be a spe-
cial exhibit by internation-
al award-winning quilter
Annemarie Schoenholzer.
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Regional group
continues work
on rail transport
By JAMES DRAPER
newsl @kilgorenewsherald.com
Agreements from cities that would be linked by a
commuter rail train have been obtained, or assurances
have been given that they will be, the North East Texas
Regional Mobility Authority was told recently.
While their most recent project is the development
of a toll road throughout East Texas, NET RMA offi-
cials are apportioning some of their attention to other
transportation projects, including the development of
commuter rail between metropolitan areas to the east
and west.
A political subdi vision formed in 2004 to support and
direct transportation projects, the North East Texas Re-
gional Mobility Authority's board of directors met for
their bi-monthly meeting in Gladewater earlier this
month, hearing among other things an update on their
efforts to connect Shreveport/Bossier City to Dallas
According to Celia Boswell of Mineola and former
mayor of the town, the rail committee she chairs for
NET RMA has secured a Memorandum of Under-
standing with Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and
is assured of the same agreement with both the City of
Shreveport and the City of Bossier City toward linking
the two population centers via, most likely, the Inter-
state 20 corridor.
"We can't put a date on that, but it would be a mu-
tual effort. It's one of the long-term goals of the NET
RMA. That was an important component for us, since
we cross state lines to get that," she said. "We have an
MOU with Dallas Dart. We have an MOU on the other
end with Shreveport/Bossier.
"Since we are, after all, a regional transportation au-
thority, this would make us more complete. We want to
be more than just toll roads."
During their July meeting, the organization's board of
directors approved their request that officials in Gregg
and Upshur counties consider the establishment of
Transportation Reinvestment Zones toward the ongo-
ing development of Segment 7 of Toll 49.
That portion of the so-called "East Texas Hourglass"
is the closest part of the looping roadway (criss-cross-
ing Smith, Gregg, Harrison and Upshur counties) to
pass near to Kilgore.
Currently, the hourglass route includes 26.3 miles
in Smith County, skirting the City of Tyler from 1-20
near Hideaway Lake about three miles west of U.S. 69
at Lindale, continuing south and east to Highway 110
near Whitehouse. NET RMA's plans would take the
loop back into Gregg County to cross 1-20 and turn east
north of Longview, heading toward Marshall.
Recent projections indicate the 1-20 crossing in Gregg
County could be ideally-situated close to Liberty City
(rather than the original crossing near Joy-Wright
Mountain Road).
"At this point, our initial project, our main project, of
course is the Toll Road 49 around Tyler. It started on
the east side of Tyler and it now goes into Interstate 20
on the west side," NET RMA Chair Linda Thomas said.
"Our organization is actually a pass-through of funds.
We're a tolling entity - we have the ability to toll roads.
But you can't toll existing roads."
In addition to approving their budget for Fiscal Year
2013-2014, at their Sept. 10 meeting the group autho-
rized multiple agreements for general engineering con-
sultant services and project development services for
current and future initiatives.
According to Thomas, since the Toll 49 project's in-
ception, NET RMA has pooled its resources for initial
funding of its toll operations while the Texas Depart-
ment of Transportation performed traffic, revenue and
environmental studies to determine the project's feasi-
bility.
"It has to do with the population of the area, and they
have ways of tracking traffic through the area, industry,
that kind of thing," she explained.
"They turned the road over to the RMA at the end
of March. Now the tolls from the road come into the
RMA. That gives the RMA the ability to operate. As the
tolls come in, that money can remain in East Texas to
further the project."
After retiring certain debts, the authority had enough
money left over to begin studies on the development of
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