TEXAS CITY, Texas — State Highway 146 was closed near FM 517 Thursday morning, following a fiery, head-on crash that left two people in critical condition, authorities said.
A Chevrolet Lumina was traveling south shortly before 7 a.m. and entered the northbound lane of a tractor-trailer hauling a non-hazardous, liquid chicken steroid, Sgt. Joe Stanton, a Texas City police spokesman, said.
The collision caused the Lumina to erupt into flames, but the driver, a 45-year-old man, and his 34-year-old passenger, escaped the car before it ignited, Stanton said.
A medical helicopter flew both men to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where they were in critical condition, Stanton said.
The tractor-trailer driver wasn’t injured, Stanton said.
"The tanker was hauling Alimet Feed Supplement methionine hydroxy analogue," Stanton said. "This material is a nonhazardous chicken steroid. The material was never expelled from the tanker, and the public was never at any risk of exposure."
Police blocked north lanes at FM 517 and south lanes at FM 646, shortly after the 6:50 a.m. crash. The lanes remained closed at 9 a.m., Stanton said.
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