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TexasTowelie

(120,793 posts)
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 05:32 PM Apr 2024

1 dead after commercial vehicle crashes into Brenham, Texas DPS building - KXAN



The Texas Department of Public Safety reported one person died and others were seriously injured after a commercial motor vehicle crashed into a DPS office Friday.


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I'm a former resident of Brenham.
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tanyev

(46,409 posts)
1. Thanks, I was monitoring some of the live coverage of that earlier today.
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 05:42 PM
Apr 2024

I wish they’d held that press conference indoors somewhere.

wolfie001

(4,930 posts)
3. Seems like an unsafe distraction for the motorists
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 06:44 PM
Apr 2024

I mean, a news gaggle like that next to a busy road/highway? WTF?

LeftInTX

(32,761 posts)
5. We stayed there overnight for my daughter's college graduation because everything in College Station was full.
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 09:09 PM
Apr 2024

My in-laws found a place for cheap in College Station, but it was full of bed bugs and they had to sleep in the car.

marble falls

(65,449 posts)
6. It also has a nice smaller liberal arts collage, Blinn, there. Nice restaurants and shops ...
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 09:17 PM
Apr 2024

Not to brag, but my youngest graduated from A&M Summa Cum Laude in Anthropology.

LeftInTX

(32,761 posts)
7. So did my daughter, in some type of cellular nutrition degree.
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 09:35 PM
Apr 2024

She became an Occupational Therapist.

catrose

(5,271 posts)
8. I've been to their quilt show. I used to visit my uncle and aunt often before they died
Sat Apr 13, 2024, 01:02 AM
Apr 2024

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