Texas crash injures 12 associates of ‘Thin Blue Line’ motorcycle club, 3 fatally

Twelve users of the Skinny Blue Line Law Enforcement Motorbike Club were being injured — a few of them fatally — in a head-on crash on a Texas freeway involving a man authorities say was driving drunk when he crossed a divider.

The Kerr County Sheriff’s Place of work explained the group was on a experience Saturday afternoon celebrating the club’s birthday on Freeway 16 just south of Kerrville when someone crossed more than the center stripe and ran into them.

“There were being three fatalities and nine members taken to the healthcare facility in vital ailment,” sheriff’s officials stated. “The human being that crossed the heart stripe has been arrested for many counts of intoxicated manslaughter and intoxicated assault.”

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Regional media quoted the sheriff’s business office as declaring the human being who was arrested was Ivan Robles Navejas, 28, of Centre Point, Texas.

The bikers killed ended up Joseph Paglia, of Chicago, Jerry Wayne Harbour, of Houstion, and Michael White, of Chicago.

Paglia was president of the club’s Chicago chapter who was a retired Niles Town law enforcement officer, Fox 29 San Antonio noted.

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Harbour was a retired U.S. Military Lt. Colonel. White was also retired from the U.S. Army.

The club was keeping a conference in Bandera, Texas, for the Slim Blue Line Foundation, in accordance to David Weed, a spokesman for the team.

“Several of our users experienced long gone on a leisurely motorbike ride to have lunch in Kerrville this morning prior to the assembly,” he mentioned according to Fox 29.

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Weed said all those killed and wounded had been struck head-on.