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2 killed in multiple motorcycle wreck
LUFKIN -- Two people were killed and five were injured in a Fourth of July collision that involved five motorcycles near the Sam Rayburn Dam.
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.
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.
Wright was taken to Lufkin's Memorial Hospital where he was treated for a broken leg and was considered stable, according to a report in Saturday editions of The Lufkin Daily News.
Four others, including two passengers, were treated and released at Jasper Memorial Hospital. One of the passengers was a 12-year-old boy.
Boren was not wearing a helmet, and it was not immediately clear whether Jackson was wearing one, the newspaper reported.
The accident happened near Jasper, which is about 130 miles northeast of Houston.


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