An 18-wheel truck with a loaded flatbed on Friday (April 12) slammed into a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) building, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen others in what a county judge said was a deliberate act. - REUTERS
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00:00 This is at the DPS office here just outside of Brenham.
00:03 There you can see the results of that crash with the 18-wheeler.
00:08 And you can see that coming at you at speed.
00:12 We don't know why.
00:14 We understand-- we had heard rumors that this was a chase that ensued.
00:18 We had an 18-wheeler that ran into our-- through our driver's license office
00:21 that's directly across the street from here.
00:24 What we know is that we had several people injured as a result of this accident.
00:29 As a result of this incident, the driver was being followed.
00:35 He had stolen an 18-wheeler earlier.
00:36 Justin's going to get into all that, so I won't get into those details.
00:39 He was being chased by a deputy, and then he ran into our building.
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