Weekend Police and EMS Report Includes Two Wrecks on Loop 337

(New Braunfels, TX)  --  A relatively uneventful weekend in New Braunfels wasn’t without some minor incidents across town, including a pair of traffic accidents that had New Braunfels Fire and EMS crews responding to the same block of Loop 337 twice over the weekend. 

• The first of those wrecks happened around 12:30 Saturday afternoon when 2 passenger vehicles crashed in the 200 block of Loop 337, which is just before you get to Business 35, in the area of TJ’s Burgers and Taco Bell.  That crash caused the airbags in one vehicle to deploy, and the 2 passengers inside suffered minor injuries.  They were both transported by ground EMS to Christus New Braunfels Hospital for treatment. That crash tied up traffic in that area until just after 1pm.
• The second wreck happened on Sunday, also during the noon hour, and also in the 200 block of Loop 337, in that same area.  That wreck was called in as a vehicle vs. bicycle crash, but when Police and EMS arrived on the scene, the male cyclist was examined and he eventually refused transport to the hospital.  And although damages to the car were minimal and there were no real injuries, that wreck also tied up traffic in that area until about 1:30pm Sunday.
• Airlife was called to New Braunfels over the weekend, but for a medical emergency, not because of a traffic accident.  Just past 10am Sunday you may have seen the helicopter landing inside the River Chase subdivision, just off FM 306.  They were simply transporting a patient from their home to Northeast Baptist Hospital in San Antonio for treatment. 
• And firefighters were called into action for a late night brush fire over the weekend.  At just past 10pm Saturday, crews were called to the 1-thousand block of Wald Road, near the Cemex plant, where a grass fire was burning up dry vegetation in the area.  It took several chemical fire extinguishers and all 400 gallons of water on a New Braunfels brush truck to douse those flames, which covered a 10 by 20 area.  But crews had the fire out relatively quickly, and they cleared the scene about a half hour later.  No injuries were reported, and although fire investigators didn’t find a definitive cause for the blaze, they did deem it accidental in nature.

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