Driver was sitting in service truck on I-45 shoulder when it was struck from behind.
A service truck driver assisting a disabled 18 wheeler was critically injured Saturday morning when his truck was struck from behind by another pickup truck.
The crash occurred around daylight on the northbound shoulder of I-45 near FM 1374 in New Waverly. Three New Waverly Fire apparatus responded to the scene along with multiple Walker County EMS crews. A fourth NWFD crew responded to the New Waverly Helipad to meet an incoming PHI medical helicopter.
The driver of the pickup that struck the service truck was extricated and moved to an arriving Ambulance for rapid transport to a Conroe Trauma Center.
The driver of the service truck was transported to the helipad and then transported downtown to the Houston Medical Center.
Troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety are conducting the crash investigation.
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