3 killed, 1 injured in 3-vehicle Houston crash

  HOUSTON -- Three people are dead and one person was hospitalized after a three-vehicle crash on a rain-slick street in northwest Houston.

The crash happened just before 6 p.m. Wednesday when a car rounded a curve, hydroplaned and veered into oncoming traffic. Police Sgt. Nora Perry tells the Houston Chronicle another car and a pickup truck then slammed into the first car.

A passenger in the second car died outright, while the driver of the car and a passenger in the first car later died at a hospital. The driver of the first car was taken to Northwest Memorial Hermann Hospital. His condition was not available. The driver of the truck was not injured.

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