Valentine Weekend’s Icy Embrace

Saturday at 8:45 p.m. a trio of Schulenburg Police officers barely avoided injury as one icy accident occurred as they were responding to another.

The officers were at the Interstate-10 frontage road near Best Western and the Hitching Post at US Hwy. 77. As officers Tobey McFadden, Brent Gindler and Frank Parkinson were working the accident, Officer Parkinson was sitting in his patrol unit speaking to two individuals at his driver’s door.

Another vehicle hit an icy spot on the overpass and began rolling down the embankment towards the frontage road. As the second vehicle was rolling towards Officer Parkinson’s patrol unit, he pulled one person into his unit as the other one ran.

Parkinson’s situational awareness and quick thinking ensured everyone involved was okay.