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Two people died late Friday and early Saturday in separate car accidents in Killeen, one that police say involved a drunken driver.

About 10:30 p.m. Friday, a woman crossing West Veteran’s Memorial. Boulevard was hit by a Pontiac Bonneville.

The woman, who police had not been able to identify later Saturday, was pronounced dead at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center.

The driver of the Bonneville, a 40- year-old Killeen man, was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, police said.

Several hours later, about 3 a.m. Saturday, a gray Kia Sorento and silver Hyundai Elantra collided head-on in the 6900 block of East Rancier Avenue after the eastbound Hyundai crossed over the center line into the westbound lane.

The 49-year-old woman drivingthe Hyundai was pronounced dead at 3:56 a.m. at Darnall Army Medical Center.

The man driving the Kia was also taken to Darnall, where he was treated and then released. Police did not release either driver’s name.

Two college-age students from Killeen were killed early Sunday in a head-on collision with a Round Rock driver going the wrong way on a toll road, according to the Department of Public Safety.

Anthony Joseph Thomas, 21, and Garvin O’Neil Campbell, 19, were driving east on Texas 45 North when their 2004 Mercedes was struck by the Mitsubishi driven by 30-year-old Michael Charles Mattioli.

Thomas and Campbell were pronounced dead at the scene, according to DPS. A DPS official said they were students but did not know from what school. Their bodies were sent to the Travis County medical examiner’s office.

DPS said Mattioli was taken to a Round Rock hospital.

28-year-old Beverly Leeann Baker of Round Rock was killed Sunday in a wreck just before 3 a.m. in the 11000 block of South Texas 195 in Killeen.

Officers responded to a report of a Jeep traveling north in the southbound lane of Texas 195  As they were en route, callers reported a crash at 2:54 a.m.

A preliminary investigation revealed that a 26-year-old Killeen man was driving a 2003 Jeep Wrangler on the wrong side of the road, police said.  The Jeep’s driver swerved to avoid a vehicle that was traveling south, spun and struck the front of a 1993 Buick Regal that was behind the other vehicle.  The Jeep then rolled and burst into flames.

The Buick was occupied by a 38-year-old man from Austin and two women.  The man and a 30-year-old woman from Georgetown who was seated in the rear of the Buick were taken to Scott & White Memorial Hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries, police said.  Baker was pronounced dead at 3:30 a.m.

The driver of the Jeep was severely burned and airlifted to Scott & White; he will be transferred to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, police said.

A man died Saturday after his motorcycle struck a speed limit sign, police said Tuesday.

Marlon Howard was driving east in the 5400 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard about 11 a.m. Friday when his blue 2000 Yamaha motorcycle left the road and struck the sign on the south side of the road.

Howard was flown to Scott & White Memorial Hospital, where he died on Saturday, police said.

He was not wearing a helmet, according to Killeen police.

A 35-year-old Killeen woman died Friday after the car she was driving left the road, collided with a stack of railroad ties and vaulted onto an embankment before catching fire, witnesses tolk Killeen police.

Witnesses said that the red Mercury Cougar driven by Nutosha Rena Allen traveled west in the 4100 block of Water Street at a high speed while she hung outside the car door.

The car crossed a sidewalk, driveway, and yard and came to rest in a wooded area, police said.

Allen was taken in critical condition to the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center and was pronounced dead at 6:04 p.m.