Police investigating bizarre crash in Conroe, driver missing

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Montgomery County law enforcement were stumped Friday morning when they arrived at the scene of a bizarre car crash where roughly 30 feet of wooden fence had impaled a black Chevrolet pickup —and the driver was nowhere to be found.

Deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office received word of a major accident in the 18700 block of FM 2090 in Conroe, Texas, Friday around 2 a.m., according to the Montgomery County Police Reporter.

When they arrived, they found a Chevy pickup had run off the road, hitting a wooden fence, according to MCPR.

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The top rail of the fence had gone through the pickup's windshield and out the back window, narrowly missing the driver seat, according to MCPR. The wooden railing continued for at least another 30 feet past the truck's bed.

Deputies found small traces of blood inside the vehicle, but saw no sign of the driver, the MCPR reporter.

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Deputies are investigating the vehicle, which may be connected to a July 18 incident in which a driver was arrested, the MCPR reported.

No other information was available at this time.

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