Authorities say the man had stopped in traffic and didn't have any lights on when someone hit his vehicle.
An 84-year-old man was killed in a crash that shut down part of the East Freeway on Tuesday morning, ABC13 has learned.
The wreck in the westbound lanes of I-10 at Thompson was reported on Houston Transtar's incident page at about 4:30 a.m. and had cleared about two hours later. The driver from Florida was stopped in one of the lanes and had on no lights when his vehicle was hit, authorities said.The man's exact cause of death is under investigation.
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