Conroe, TX – A 59-year-old woman was killed in a head-on collision involving a wrong-way pickup truck on Interstate 45 in Conroe late last month, according to police.

The crash occurred around 4:40 a.m. on November 25 on I-45 near the Highway 105 exit.

Investigators said the pickup truck was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of the North Freeway at more than 100 mph when it struck a white SUV traveling in the correct direction.

The SUV driver, identified as Emelia Muniz, was pronounced dead at the scene. The pickup truck driver, 20-year-old Kaden Patrick Lamoreau, suffered serious injuries and was transported to a hospital.

Police said the crash followed multiple 911 calls reporting a pickup truck traveling the wrong way at a high rate of speed. Additional callers subsequently reported the collision.

In an update to the investigation, Conroe police announced that Lamoreau was arrested Monday night, November 9, after being released from the hospital. He surrendered at the Montgomery County Jail on an outstanding warrant charging him with intoxication manslaughter, a second-degree felony.

The arrest warrant was secured through an investigation involving the Conroe Police Department and the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.

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