Texas deputy dies after being hit by truck while helping during accident

Officials accidental a lawman who was a 20-year-veteran of a Houston-area sheriff’s bureau has died aft being deed by a motortruck portion trying to assistance a operator pursuing a insignificant crash

HOUSTON -- A lawman who was a 20-year-veteran of a Houston-area sheriff’s bureau died Tuesday aft being deed by a motortruck portion trying to assistance a operator pursuing a insignificant crash, according to officials.

John Coddou had pulled implicit to assistance pursuing the clang astatine 9:30 a.m. northwest of Houston, said Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.

A achromatic Chevy motortruck that was traveling connected the roadway swerved to debar Coddou’s conveyance and veered onto the median, wherever Coddou was helping with the insignificant crash.

Coddou tried to debar the motortruck but helium was hit, Gonzalez.

He was flown by chopper to a Houston hospital, wherever helium was pronounced dead, Gonzalez said.

“Our hearts are broken, our spirits are crushed,” Gonzalez said. “It’s a bittersweet time successful Harris County arsenic we mourn the nonaccomplishment of 1 of our deputies that died successful the enactment of duty.”

The operator of the motortruck remained astatine the country and was cooperating with investigators, Gonzalez said.

Caddou, 50, was an Army seasoned and had been assigned to the convulsive crimes portion of the sheriff’s office. He was married.

Gonzalez said that Caddou could person decided not to halt and thrust past the clang scene.

“But that wasn’t who John was. By each accounts, helium was a nationalist servant done and through,” Gonzalez said.