Monday night, just before 7 p.m., Lubbock police responded to a three-vehicle crash on Spur 327 at the West Loop frontage road—because of course it was Spur 327. When officers arrived, they found 43-year-old Morton Saenz with severe injuries. He was rushed to UMC, where he later died.
According to investigators, Saenz wasn’t speeding, racing, or doing anything especially reckless. He was doing the most dangerous thing you can do in Lubbock traffic: helping someone. A 29-year-old driver, Collin Houghton, had a disabled car on the side of the road. Saenz pulled over and was in the process of hitching the vehicle to his pickup to get it out of traffic.
That’s when another passenger car slammed into them—Saenz, the pickup, and the stalled vehicle—turning a routine act of roadside kindness into a fatal crash. Houghton was not injured. Saenz did not survive.
Police say the investigation is ongoing, which is LPD-speak for “we’ll eventually tell you what everyone already suspects,” sometime after the next ten crashes on the same stretch of road.
In Lubbock, even doing the right thing on the side of the road can get you killed—so maybe the most dangerous vehicle out there isn’t the pickup or the sedan, but the city’s complete inability to make its roads remotely forgiving.
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