Accident also leaves a passenger dead
Prominent Houston lawyer John O’Quinn was the man driving a sport utility vehicle that lost control on the rain-slicked surface of Allen Parkway and crashed into a large tree, killing him and his passenger this morning, based on preliminary information gathered by crash investigators, police said.
The passenger was identified as Johnny Lee Cutliff, 56, of the 5300 block of Bacher. Neither man was wearing a seat belt, said the police sources, who asked not to be identified.
How fast O’Quinn, 68, was driving has not yet been determined because investigators must pull the vehicle’s crash data computer, or so-called "black box," to determine that information. But witnesses told police he appeared to be driving between 50 and 60 mph, a Houston Police Department spokeswoman said. The speed limit there is 40 mph.
The black late-model Chevrolet Suburban was westbound in the 1900 block of Allen Parkway at a high rate of speed when the accident occurred about 8 a.m., officials said.
Police said it appeared that the SUV veered to the left, jumped a curb and careened over a grassy median, crossed the eastbound traffic lanes and hopped another curb onto a second median before smashing into the tree on the south side of Allen Parkway. Tire marks across the first median show the path of the hurtling SUV.
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