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Houston Chronicle http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5873000.html
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> 2 killed in multiple motorcycle wreck
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> LUFKIN, Texas -- Two people were killed and five were injured in a
> Fourth of July collision that involved five motorcycles near the Sam
> Rayburn Dam.
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> Robert Benjamin Boren of Galveston, who was heading west on his Harley
> Davidson, crossed the center line of Recreational Road 255 and collided
> with Donald Mitchell Jackson of Wells, who was going east on his
> Yamaha, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Both were
> killed.
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> Another Harley Davidson cyclist, A.W. Wright of Lufkin, drove through
> the crash scene and struck Jackson. Two other cyclists who followed
> Wright also crashed.
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> Wright was taken to Lufkin's Memorial Hospital where he was treated for
> a broken leg and considered stable, according to a report in Saturday
> editions of The Lufkin Daily News.
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> Four others, including two passengers, were treated and released at
> Jasper Memorial Hospital. One of the passengers was a 12-year-old boy.
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> Boren was not wearing a helmet, and it was not immediately clear
> whether Jackson was wearing one, the newspaper reported.
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> The accident happened near Jasper, which is about 130 miles northeast
> of Houston.
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