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Daily Newspaper and Travel Guide
for Pecos Country of West Texas
Monday, February 3, 2003
Accidents keep officials busy over weekend
JENNIFER GALVAN
Staff Writer
PECOS, Feb. 3, 2003 - The Pecos Police Department responded to several
car accidents this weekend, one involving a collision with a light pole
and another with a tree.
The first accident accord at 8:04 a.m. on Saturday, February 1, on the
corner of Second and Cypress, in which one vehicle struck another vehicle
on its passenger door.
According to the report the driver of a 1994 white Chevy truck, Jonathon
Luke Spencer, said that he was stopped at the stop sign at the 200 block
of S. Cypress and the 100 block of West Second Street.
At which point, Spencer then proceeded not noticing the 1989 black Ford
F-150 driven by Raul Tavares Garcia, who was traveling east on or about
the 200 block of West Second Street.
The report said that four people were taken to Reeves County Hospital.
A second accident accord on the corner of Third and Walnut streets at
8:38 a.m. that same morning, when a pickup truck heading east on Third
Street struck a light pole on the northwest corner of the intersection.
Details of the accident were unavailable at press time, however a male
subject was transported to Reeves County Hospital. Police at the scene
said the driver was unconscious when emergency personnel arrived and was
unable to give them details on the collision.
The third accident accord Sunday at 7:46 a.m., at the 1900 block of
Washington.
The police report stated that the driver of a 1989 white Dodge Dynasty,
Dolores Rubio Maldonado was traveling east on the 1900 block of Washington
Street.
The report stated that Maldonado said that she had fell asleep behind
the steering wheel and veered off into the left side of the roadway in
which her vehicle jumped the left hand curb at the 1900 block of Washington
Street and struck a tree that was at the location on the north side of
the roadway.
Swimmers repeat as Regional Champs
By JON FULBRIGHT
Staff Writer
PECOS, Feb. 3, 2003 -There were a couple of surprises and only some
mild disappointments on the boys' side for the Pecos Eagles over the weekend,
at the Region I-4A Swimming and Diving Championships in Lubbock. For the
Eagle girls, there were a few more disappointments than surprises in the
preliminaries on Friday, but in the end, both Pecos teams ended up repeating
as regional champions, and even some of the swimmers who failed to win
their events in Saturday's finals ended up earning at-large berths in the
Class 4A State Championships in Austin on Feb. 14-15.
Just as they did at the District 3-4A meet the previous weekend, Pecos'
boys more than doubled the score of their nearest rival, winning the regional
title by a 112-55 score over Andrews. On the girls' side, things were a
little closer this weekend, but the Eagles still came out on top by a comfortable
margin, winning 104-70 over the Mustangs.
The boys saw three of their district winners come up short at regionals
early in Saturday's meet, though coach Terri Morse said, "We didn't expect
to win those at regionals." But Pecos made up for it with upset wins later
on in the finals.
The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Gary Garcia, Daniel Quintana, Matt
Elliott and Max Key edged Andrews by .19 second to win the automatic berth
at the state meet, after placing behind Andrews and Monahans in previous
races at district and regionals. Pecos had a 1:33.67 time to Andrews' 1:33.86.
Garcia then edged out Big Spring's Mark Sheedy and Josh Pike to win the
100-yard backstroke, with a 59.47 time to 59.57 for Sheedy and 59.88 for
Pike.
Earlier, Quintana was beaten out in the 200 yard freestyle by Pampa's
Weather
PECOS, Feb. 3, 2003 -High Sunday 89. Low this morning 53. Forecast for
tonight: Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. North winds 5 to 15 mph becoming
southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Tuesday: Partly cloudy. Highs 60
to 65. South winds 5 to 15 mph. Tuesday night: Mostly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 30s. Wednesday: Mostly cloudy. Highs near 60. Thursday: Cloudy. Lows
in the mid 30s. Highs in the lower 50s.
Pecos Enterprise
York M. "Smokey" Briggs, Publisher
Division of Buckner News Alliance, Inc.
324 S. Cedar St., Pecos, TX 79772
Phone 915-445-5475, FAX 915-445-4321
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