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Leigh Boone (29) died after she was crushed beneath a fire truck
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Auto-Pedestrian Accident
Published: Dec 05, 2010 @ 6:26 PM
Leigh Boone (29)
Date:
Apr 11, 2009
Cause of Death:
Crushed by truck
Location:
Houston, TX
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The 29-year-old bicyclist who was crushed beneath a Houston Fire Department ladder truck in an accident involving two firetrucks last month died early Saturday afternoon.
Leigh Boone was pronounced dead at 12:10 p.m., said Memorial Hermann Hospital spokeswoman Alex Rodriguez.
Boone had been in critical condition for two weeks with serious head injuries she sustained when a 40-ton ladder truck toppled and crushed her bike on March 30.
Authorities found the ladder truck driver, Warren Ducote, at fault for the crash that injured 11 people. They say he ran a red light. A police official said on Saturday it was too early to tell whether Ducote would face criminal charges.
Both Houston Fire Department trucks were en route to what firefighters thought was a blaze but turned out to be a Houston public works crew smoke-testing sewer lines.
Ducote ran a red light while headed northbound on Dunlavy and was broad-sided by a pumper truck westbound on Westheimer.
Investigators determined that the pumper truck had a green light.
Boone worked as an executive assistant at the Houston Center for Photography before her death.
In a series of interviews after the crash, family and friends described her as a "happy" and "talented" woman. She graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in theater arts.
"She's a real people person. She's never met a stranger. That's why she has so many friends in the Monntrose area," said her brother George Boone.
Family and friends were gathered around her when she died, according to a family Web site that has been chronicling her ordeal.
On a Facebook.com page dedicated to Boone, friends mourned Boone's passing.
"This is devastating. If anyone could have pulled through this, it would have been Leigh. I am so deeply, deeply sorry," wrote Casey Radle from Austin.
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