Four people were injured, one seriously, in a three-vehicle accident about 7:15 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of South Collegiate Drive and south Loop 286, near the Paris High School campus.
Witnesses told Paris Police Department officers that a 1998 red Tacoma driven by a man identified as Dennis Johnson was going south on Collegiate and failed to stop at the stop sign at the intersection with the loop.
Police were told that as Johnson’s vehicle went into the intersection, it was first hit by a west-bound 2009 Toyota driven by Alton Sims, 69, of Paris, and then by an east-bound 2012 Dodge pickup pulling a utility trailer driven by Jeffery Gilbert, 35, of Paris.
Johnson was taken by helicopter to Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
Sims; his wife, Sherry; and Gilbert were taken by Paris EMS to a local hospital for treatment.
The investigation into the accident is continuing, police said.
From Friday through Sunday, Paris police answered 347 calls, arresting 23 people, Paris Police Chief Bob Hundley said.
One person was arrested on a parole warrant and one person was detained for mental evaluation.
The other arrests included misdemeanor arrests for municipal court warrants, assault, theft, possession of marijuana, DWI, unlawfully carrying a weapon, fighting and disorderly conduct.
Charles Richards Charles Richards moved to Paris in 2004 after retiring from a 40-year career in journalism – the last 26 years as a news writer and sports writer with The Associated Press in Dallas and Washington, D.C. In mid-2004, The Paris News coaxed him out of retirement, and he began covering the police, court and regional beat for The Paris News. Then in early 2005, he was switched to coverage of a sharply divided Paris City Council. He was appointed by the City Council in 2006 to the 12-member City Charter Review Commission, which extensively rewrote the outmoded document. His writing awards include two first-place awards in statewide competition for feature writing. The most recent was his 2005 story on a Paris doctor’s startling use of leeches in a successful attempt to re-attach a man’s severed ear. Over his career, Richards’ interview subjects include Alabama Gov. George Wallace, President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush, David Koresh, Arnold Palmer, Muhammad Ali and numerous other political and sports figures. He is an alumnus of Texas Tech, where he was editor of the school newspaper. He lives in Paris with his wife, Barbara, who is retired after 30 years as a teacher and high school counselor.
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