Man run down while fleeing accident on S. Loop

Instant karma can be rough sometimes: Take, for example, the man who was killed last night while trying to run away from a hit-and-run accident he reportedly caused.

It happened at about 11:30 p.m. on Telephone Road in southeast Houston, where a pickup truck rear-ended an SUV stopped at a red light. The pickup drove off and a witness in another vehicle followed it to the South Loop, where the pickup driver and a passenger jumped out of the vehicle and tried to flee on foot. The men decided to run across the freeway, which turned out to be a bad idea:

"Actually saw them stop and get out of their vehicle and attempted to flee from him, crossing over the freeway, at which time another vehicle struck one of the two parties that exited, that took off running," said Pete Casares with the Houston Police Department.

The man who was killed was believed to have been the driver of the pickup; the other guy kept running and is still at large. The woman driving the car that hit the man and her 3-year-old child, who was also in the car, weren't seriously injured.