Police say excessive speed in to blame for a single vehicle accident that left man dead in the parking lot of a northeast side H-E-B store, News Radio 1300 WOAI reports.
Police say the 34 year old victim was driving recklessly and at a high rate of speed down Jones-Maltsburger near Thousand Oaks..
He lost control of his car, hit a curb, smashed into a pole, and his car ten careened into the grocery store parking lot, trapping the driver inside.
EMS tried to cut the man out of the wreckage, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, crushed by the weight of the car.
Police say nobody in the parking lot was hurt, and the victim was alone in the vehicle.