Human remains recovered from white car near pipeline fire in Deer Park, officials say
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2024
- The Harris County medical examiner is working through their identification process on the remains that were recovered Thursday morning.
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As Grisly as this is, it makes sense there would be somebody in the car.
There is no way with the fire being that large that somebody would be walking away from this unscathed, not even considering what happened with the car crash.
So true
"wondering where the driver was" come on bruh anyone with a brain knew there was a corpse in it every time they showed the car on the news u don't walk out of an accident like that
Theres nothing left of the person in the car just bones and ash
Makes an allegation of fact... continues to disprove it in the same sentence. Must be one of those tejus edjukates...
@@I_Am_Your_Problem What?
@@I_Am_Your_Problem "Minor spelling or grammatical mistake used to insult someone" guy is here, everyone stay calm. It can't see you if you don't move.
Maybe it was intentional but maybe not. Since the body has likely been completely incinerated, there is little to no chance of an autopsy determining whether there was a heart attack, stroke, or some other medical emergency, or even if it was self-inflicted on purpose. I still am inclined to believe that the driver had a medical emergency which, at first, caused her to lose control, going through the fence, slowing the car down some then, as she lost consciousness and/or passed away, the weight of her body slumped down & forward onto her right leg enough to cause the car to accelerate straight for the valve, unfortunately. The explosive force blasted the car up, set it ablaze, and the driver, if not already dead before impact, lost her life to the flames. That's my personal theory.
They know already who the driver was I'm certain of it. Think about it: they had good eye witness accounts of the accident and what the driver looked like and the vehicle description as well. And somebody's elderly relative that owns that exact vehicle didn't make it home the other day.... couple that with how quickly an act of terrorism was ruled out, and I'd say authorities have known since day 1 who the driver was. Whether a health emergency occurred or the driver was just not fit to drive anymore, is something they will never know for certain as I agree any remains would be along the lines of cremation quality. Steel was melting near that fire, houses a ways away were smoking even... that thing was a giant blow-torch that went on for over 48 hours and that car and driver were at ground-zero! 😞(oh, plus Walmart parking lots have a LOT of camera's usually, so I'm betting there is MUCH clearer video of the car driving thru that Walmart parking lot and the license plate was likely on video as such.)
@@michaelshrader5139exactly but for some reason the normal populace has forgotten how to common sense.
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@@Caveman125 It's election season, there are conspiracies everywhere... Some of them are real, and some of them are invented out of whole cloth, like the Shroud of Turin.
So you think it was pre meditated and the driver knew that there a gas value but unless she was familiar with the operation how would anyone know there is a gas value behind the fence?
@@johndoe-zz1nr it was because there are witnesses saying they went around bushes and lined the car up.
also its not hard to find these lines if your paying attention.
The photos of your late son, get those scanned asap and saved in numerous locations.
I wouldn't wanna live close to that!
Wow that is so sad that they lost their son at only 2 yrs old, he would only be 4 yrs younger then me of he were still here. Just saddening, happy the pictures didn't get destroyed.
RIP whoever that driver was. Despite the fact that no deaths were being reported in coverage until this point, I figured they would find the driver had died in the vehicle since no one had showed up to a local ER with severe burns. I just hope they weren't conscious for that experience.
I suspect authorities already know who the driver was... they had a good description of the vehicle before it hit the valve, and a partial description of the driver (an elderly woman with glasses on, I believe eye witnesses to the event have said). That woman, didn't make it home the other evening... I'm sure her relatives were quick to contact law enforcement, hence why a terrorist attack was ruled-out so very quickly in this incident. I am slightly concerned though that terrorist around the world now see just how vulnerable these gas pipeline valves in the US are, and that can't be a good thing! Just saying. 😕
It's most likely the above ground value was abiding by code. It had an easement and was fenced. Those above ground valves are all over the country. It hadn't caused any problems until someone ran through the fence and hit it. It's possible that regulations may change for the ones in populated areas
Where I live, those short cement posts (like in front of government buildings) have been installed around all these kinds of things.
@@NYCHFAN that's a great idea for all of those valves, everywhere. And affordable too.
I am entertaining investors for my new venture: Safety Technologies for Ollision Prevention. IoT enabled bollards and other barrier solutions that sense oncoming threats and scream when impacted 😂
*Given what's going on with insurance companies jacking up rates or just flat pulling out, these folks have my sympathy. This is going to be costly.*
Yeah if it had that much damage in the homes a few feet away, ain’t no way that driver would’ve made it anywhere
Motive is my question. Once the driver is identified we should know a little more. Was it a disgruntled Transfer employee or an 80 year old retired librarian? My gut tells me this wasn't intentional because the public didn't know what the pipeline was carrying. The surveillance video of the collision showed that the car was not attempting to slow down when it struck the valve. It looked as if it was accelerating on the uneven ground.
Looks like a classic case of an elderly driver standing on the accelerator pedal trying to stop their vehicle in utter confusion... we really need to be more aggressive in taking the keys from drivers who are no longer safe to drive due to age or other health issues. Just because you can still drive, does not mean that you should still drive! It is very difficult to take the keys from your elderly relative who you are afraid to even ride with because their driving has deteriorated so badly they scare you... just saying. 😞
This happened once in a church parking lot across the street from my best friend's apartment. My girlfriend and I were just leaving going down the steps and the church was right in front of us. An elderly woman got into a large Plymouth four door sedan in the parking lot, stomped on the gas, and disappeared behind the back of the church when we heard the crash. We ran across the street, saw the accident, and my girlfriend ran back to my friends apartment to call EMS. With very little room to accelerate the car hit a concrete parking stop and jumped it, it then broke a small chain link fence to prevent pedestrians from falling into the basement level rear exit walkway. It completely cleared a double door walkway into the basement entrance of the church, impacted one of the doors and removed it from the hinges, and struck a woman in the head killing her instantly as it flew over. The car stopped in the grass 30 feet from the jump, and the woman driving did not have a scratch on her.... But she was very, very confused and was completely unsure what had just happened. I was one of the first people on the scene and would have seen all of it but I was looking at the front of the church and the car drove past the rear exit. But my girlfriend and I both looked up and saw the car speeding across the parking lot before it vanished behind the church... The whump bang!!
'didn't know' , the 'no smoking' , 'natural gas' signs didn't give a clue?
Multiple witnesses in the WalMart parking lot said the driver was an elderly woman who appeared to be passed out at the wheel. Most likely a medical emergency. The police have known from day 1 who the driver is. They're just waiting for the autopsy to confirm the identity before releasing it to the public.
Where’s the video from Walmart’s parking lot
don't buy a home near a pipeline or chemical plant
K. Thanks
In other words, don't buy a home in or near Houston, Texas.
The person was basically cremated. One of the other news channels showed what they pulled out of the car and it was basically a small charred stump - not even a full body.
What channel showed that?
Link?
We werent wondering, it was obvious they were dead in the car.
"Breaking Now. Police revealing that a criminal investigation is under way. Also, there's a corpse burned to death in the car. We were wondering where the driver went." So much stupidity with people today. Are the police going to charge the dead body with a crime? And who actually thought the driver survived the crash?
Well charred, I’m sure. What an awful way to go.
I watched them pulling the body out, it was a charred stump.
These valves are all over down there, not protected by anything but a fence, and the closest shut off will still allow it to burn for 60 hours.
Dude didn’t say sht about the human remains…
The little old lady from Pasadena...
Maybe it was an elderly person. They sometimes get confused and do things like this.
This persons body has been destroyed to a degree much higher than that of a cremated body after passing away. I can't see where any DNA can be recovered. I think the person will only be identified by the registration, and that will be only if the car is registered, or if there is a medical device that is numbered such as a hip replacement. This fire destroyed property way down the road. To think this cars occupant can be discovered thru forensics is something I think can't be pulled off.
should be enough bone material, if forensic is lucky, the remains will have surgical steel implants or fracture scars to help identify
@@tribeval Y'all are forgetting something... somebody who owns a vehicle identical to the one that struck the pipeline didn't come home the other day! HELLO! Family or friends have surely contacted authorities already, probably on day 1 of this incident. Their description of their friend or relative that drives that identical vehicle coupled with eye witness accounts of the incident AND security video of the car as it was going thru the Walmart parking lot (they have a LOT of video cameras in the Walmart parking lots y'all!)... odds are authorities have known who the driver was since the day this happened, and hence were able to rule out a terrorist attack so quickly. Just saying.
They know who she is. She was shopping at Walmart, they have her on internal and parking lot security cameras, they have a list of the stuff she bought and took to her car. They knew who she was within a couple of hours, and they spoke with family I am sure. This is how they knew it was not a foreign actor or domestic anti-social attack.
@@rtqii there have been no reports on the identification, stop spreading lies.
Bet they’ll put better barriers around it now, huh. Just a little foresight could have saved a lot of work and property. Thankful that this disaster wasn’t any worse. And don’t @ me about how they were following regulations. These companies have enough money and influence that they pretty much dictate regulations. Following regulations doesn’t excuse abandoning public safety to save money in this context.
They should, but doesn't mean they will. Real terrorist want to do more than just cremate themselves and inconvenience a neighborhood in the process. In short, if the pipeline had exploded like a big bomb going off blowing homes and businesses away killing and wounding A LOT of people, then terrorists around the world would have taken notice of how easy this was to do! But the only person that died was the driver, and though structures were damaged (and possibly some are a complete loss), there was no huge amount of destruction that resulted. Hence, it would seem unlikely that anybody would ram a gas pipeline valve intentionally, and the odds of an accident like this occurring again are extremely slim. So they probably won't do anything new to protect such above ground valves, IMHO. 😕
*Cremated* 😔🕊️☮️🍃
They told us that nobody died. Now we got a body. Wtf.
*Where is access control? The company is liable for a wrongful death lawsuit and gross negligence when it comes to safety protocols.*
How do they know the remains are human? Haven't heard any official source confirm this.
If the white SUV driver was trying to unalive him or herself by ramming the equipment, it would seem they’d have to know that doing so wouldn’t just result in a crash, but an actual explosion? Was the equipment easily accessible by a vehicle? Sorry, I’m very curious.
Anything carrying fuel could explode or catch on fire if the containment is breached and the leak gets exposed to an ignition source. Metal scraping on metal (eg car body on metal pipe) causes sparks, and if that wasn't enough, regular vehicles have combustion engines--ie it's a bunch of constant, controlled fuel explosions being set off by spark plugs that's making most cars run. It would have been a reasonable guess on anyone's part that damage to pipeline like this could cause a big explosion and/or fire. (There's more reasons besides the expense and annoyance of breaking a water main or cutting telephone/cable lines that you're supposed to call to have pipelines and utilities marked before you dig!)
It seems like only a chain link fence was around the place. This isn't much of a match for a whole SUV going 70+ mph. So yes, easy, as long as you don't care about damage to the car from the impact.
I believe the person had a medical incident of some kind. Lost consciousness. Lost control.
@@Ana-tk4ty ty❣️
@@PenelopePitstop0078 so tragic 🙁
Sure it was very easily accessible by any vehicle whose driver is standing on the accelerator pedal trying to stop their car that's heading in the direction of the pipeline valve by random chance.... nothing short of concrete barriers would have stood a chance of deflecting the car away from that pipeline valve. And it wasn't an explosion like a bomb explodes, this was like lighting up an acetylene cutting torch used to cut thru steel, only a million times larger than any shop acetylene torch and with no other nearby valves to shut off the flow!
Hajji was driving & Johnny escaped….
Protective bollards would have prevented this. This needs to be mandated for valve stations in residential areas. (But welcome to Texas 😫) Probably cost less than $4,000 to install the bollards. I'm guessing they have about a half million dollars in burnt off fuel
And a several million in damages.
Bollocks!
The owners of these facilities wouldn't pay for them. They would want tax payers to pay.
Why didnt some of our oilfield experts like Schlumberger or boots n coots not come forward to put this out sooner, so that peoples homes could be saved? Are they not in business any longer?
I haven’t been following this closely so am wondering why it has been burning for so long? They can’t shut the pipeline down at some other location nearby?
As I understand it, and from the video I watched, the pipeline was carrying liquid natural gas. When the pipe ruptured, the line pressure dropped and the gas in the line started to boil with a mix of liquid and vapor escaping from the break. Even though the pipeline company shut off the valves on either side of the break, there is likely quite a few miles of pipeline on either side of the break, and all of the gas contained in the line will have to boil off to vapor and exit through the broken valve. This will take quite a while to happen since the boiling gas will take heat from the ground, chilling the earth and slowing the boiling process.
Even with the proximal and distal valves closed, the size of the pipeline in diameter and length combined with the pressure it carried meant there was a significant volume of liquified natural gas in the remaining section. Liquid is denser than vapor and Vapor is what burns, so what we saw was the expansion as it vaporized. The physics are interesting but the reality of what happened is tragic end the tracks from the enjoyment of the science. 😕
@@HM2SGT Thanks. Any idea of the diameter of this pipeline? Since it is near the refineries, I'm sure it's probably designed to handle a large volume of LNG.
@@stevelacombe5291 I read somewhere that it was 24 inches, but that's unconfirmed so take it with a grain of salt.
why did dude crash into it? Suicide or heart attack and crashed that way? Which is it
I wonder if the license plate is still intact or not. I'm sure they'll identify the driver soon. I was hoping the car was not responsible but wishful thinking. Maybe ought to have some concrete barriers around there.
The person was shopping at Walmart before the crash. They have them on internal and parking lot security cameras, they have the transaction receipt for the items purchased that were carried to the car. They knew who this was within a couple of hours of the accident, and they were able to rule out terrorism of any kind.
They have car on video. No way am I buying they don't have license. Nope
The person could have been having a medical condition/emergency.
This just in! breaking news!!! 70 hours after a vehicle crashed into an unsecured gas pipeline, authorities believe there was a human being that crashed 😮 and they have a body 😮 surprise!!!!!
Maybe they should build a wall around this facility.
Maybe people shouldn’t drive over high pressure lines and through fences.
Fire still raging lol.
What's so funny about it stupid?
Energy Transfer being cheap replacing pipeline with old pipe lol
Charcoal anyone?
This was intentional.
Grandma wanted to be cremated
U think??
Like i said it was an attack
Stop saying things.
Krispie !!!!
Keep these people safe amen ♥
And not over cooked
Plot twist
Yeah right 😂
I ❤ her hair
Why?
If they identify the driver as an illegal immigrant, are you going to be willing to report that fact? If he/she/it turns out to be an illegal immigrant with ties to a terrorist organization or a country with many terrorist organizations, are you going to be willing to report that fact? Maybe the whole thing was an accident. Maybe the whole thing was someone trying to end his/her own life, but both of those would be unusual outcomes. Unusual things happen, but terrorists would know that a quick way to harm the United States is to conduct this kind of attack on our infrastructure. We cannot import huge numbers of our enemies and not expect to face violent consequences.
If it was an old white lady/ man are you willing to report that ..? If it was a military veteran are you willing to report that?
Man you know what just shut up and wait for the damn news !
It's a little old elderly lady who was shopping at Walmart and apparently had a medical event after she got her car started and in drive.
Why are human beings who want to live in America and enjoy an improved lifestyle and economic opportunity your mortal enemies who want to kill you?
@@rtqii That's funny. The latest report from KHOU is that police consider this to be a criminal investigation. Are you saying that police have figured out that the driver was a little old lady who had a medical emergency but still feel a need to do a criminal investigation? If police know that she had a medical emergency, what's the crime? The area around the pipeline was not well-secured, but the fence would offer some resistance to a vehicle. If the little old lady was driving the speed limit and passed out, the vehicle having the energy to do this much damage would a remarkable coincidence. Likewise, someone passing out and driving on the exact path that would lead to rupturing the pipeline would be a remarkable coincidence. In either case, the police would not be investigating the situation as a crime if those things are known.
The obvious explanation is that you are being dishonest. Even if the crash ends up being the result of a medical emergency, you don't what happened. I speculated, but I clearly identified my speculation as speculation by using words like "if" and "maybe." I said that maybe the whole thing was an accident. I won't know that until the investigation is complete. You spoke as if you have the answer even as police are beginning an investigation. My guess is that you threw out that speculation because you don't like my raising the possibility that someone who shouldn't be in this country committed a terrorist act against our citizens.
Your dishonesty is why people have so much contempt for the left and anyone else who tries to insist that unrestricted illegal immigration isn't a problem. For that matter, many of us have the same contempt for those on the right who lie to support their narratives or to attack narratives that they don't like. I'm just guessing that you are on the left because generally those are the people most upset by criticism of unrestricted illegal immigration. I guess you could be a Liz Cheney supporter. That wouldn't help your credibility either.
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Republicans have done nothing for us.
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Without Republicans you would freeze in winter. You have no clue how the USA works.
What have dems done in the last 12 out of 16 years?
@@Pigtrapper Lots of things. Infrastructure is just one of the many successful policies that has been converted into real gain. Rural communities across the country are being connected with low-cost high-speed fiber optic internet. Rifle Colorado is just one town that has been connected. It created jobs, and now permits remote work from this rural community. It was so popular that Lauren Boebert took credit for it at her local town hall... Even though she voted against the legislation, a vote that you personally support.
2:06 ????????????????????? wtf is she saying a nuclear bomb ???????????????????
0:22 Speak for yourself. I didn’t wonder shit. The drive was obviously in the car, slow roasting