A late-afternoon crash between two pickup trucks in northeast Houston left one man dead, another in the hospital, and Homestead Road choked with traffic on Wednesday, according to city police.
The wreck unfolded around 5:20 p.m. in the 9700 block of Homestead Road. Houston Fire Department paramedics pronounced the driver of a white Dodge Ram dead at the scene, while the driver of a black GMC Sierra was rushed to a nearby hospital.
What Houston police said
According to a Houston Police Department news release posted on the City of Houston, a white Dodge Ram was heading north on Homestead when it “failed to maintain a single lane.” Investigators say the truck lost control, hit the center median divider, rolled over, and then crashed into a southbound black GMC Sierra…