Just after 1 pm Thursday a 80-year old male was walking in the center median across Lake Woodlands near Six Pines when he was struck by Melodee Arrendelo of Cold Spring. According to DPS Troopers the elderly man identified as Gary Wyrey was about to cross Lake Woodlands. As he stepped out into the moving lane of traffic he was struck by Arrendelo who was making a legal u-turn in her 2008 Scion XB.
Wyrey was transported to Hermann Hospital in the Woodlands where he was pronounced dead just before 5 p.m.