Just after 7 pm, a GMC pickup was traveling east on SH 99 between Highland Hollow and FM 1314 when the driver lost control. He hit the guardrail, tearing over 100 feet down, then, without a guardrail in front of him, his vehicle rolled multiple times off the edge of the bridge and dropped to the drainage canal below. There were four males in the vehicle. The two front seat passengers had seatbelts, the two rear did not. Two were transported to Kingwood Hospital in stable condition. With fuel leaking into the drainage canal,, TXDOT requested Master Hazmat to the scene. Both inside lanes at that location will be closed for several hours. DPS investigated the crash. This is the fifth crash in the past year on SH 99 in which there was no type of device to stop a vehicle from going below. The others jumped off the bridge wall. Two of those were fatal.
