Lufkin police, TxDOT reporting numerous flooded streets, downed power lines, non-working signal lights
WEBXTRA: Lufkin spokeswoman Jessica Pebsworth discusses flooding, stalled cars By Gary Bass and Caleb Beames | May 9, 2021 at 6:41 PM CDT - Updated May 10 at 4:55 AM
LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - Both the Lufkin Police Department and the Texas Department of Transportationsâ Lufkin office are urging people to avoid traveling until the weather conditions calm down because of flooded streets and downed power lines.
Lufkin Public Information Officer Jessica Pebsworth said during the first line of storms that moved through Sunday, the cityâs first responders had to perform five high water rescues/ evacuations and once the flood water receded they had to two over a dozen vehicles that were left stranded in the roads.
Man dies in 1-vehicle rollover wreck off Lufkin loop Source: Lufkin Police Department) (Source: Lufkin Police Departent) By Gary Bass | May 9, 2021 at 10:57 AM CDT - Updated May 10 at 2:32 AM
LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - A man died in a one-vehicle rollover wreck that occurred off Loop 287 in Lufkin early Sunday morning.
According to a post on the Lufkin Police Department Facebook page, LPD officers were dispatched out to the 4200 block of North Medford Drive (Loop 287) under the U.S. Highway 59 bridge at 4:24 a.m. Sunday. When they got to the scene, they found a white Chevrolet pickup on its roof.
The driver had been partially ejected, and he was not breathing, the Facebook post stated.