At 2:35 pm Conroe Police were dispatched to a major accident at South Loop 336 and South Frazier in Conroe. MCHD also responded to the scene and found a motorcycle rider in critical condition. The motorcycle rider, identified as 27-year-old John Thomas Duncan III of Conroe was taken to Conroe Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead. According to Conroe Police Department Sgt. Robert Engel, the motorcycle was traveling westbound when Duncan failed to stop for the red light. He then struck a 1999 Dodge pickup driven by Carlos Gomez, 37, of Conroe in the side. Gomez was also pulling a landscape trailer. Gomez was not injured. Traffic on the South Loop was closed westbound for almost 90 minutes as was southbound Frazier to the South Loop east. Precinct Justice of the Peace Trey Spikes ordered Eickenhorst Funeral Directors to transport Duncan to the Montgomery County Forensic Center for autopsy. An 18-wheeler driver from Baton Rouge, Louisiana who was hauling eighty foot lengths of pipe to Montgomery for a pipeline project said the first time he came through this intersection in Conroe he was almost involved in a crash. He stated as he was westbound he came under the railroad overpass and saw the green light for the feeder of Interstate 45. It wasn't until he was almost in the intersection of the South Loop and Frazier that he saw the traffic light which was red at that intersection. He said now that he knows it is there he slows long before the railroad bridge.

• published: 05 Oct 2013
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