Williamson County deputies responded to a fatal crash involving and 18-wheeler and a pickup on Texas 95 near County Road 387 Friday night, according to officials. Deputies shit down one lane of traffic about 8 p.m. after the wreck, according to a tweet. The name of the person who died was not released.
A woman and her grandson died in a wreck Friday night, authorities said. Taylor police responded to the crash about 8:30 p.m. in the 1100 block of South main Street. Authorities said Pflugerville resident Glenda Louise Werth, 59, was driving a 2009 Honda van north on South Main Street with 20 month old, Hunter Werth,…
One person is dead and another was injured following a wreck in North Austin early Sunday. Austin-Travis County EMS Medics responded to the corner of W. Braker Lane and Burnet Road around 8:45 a.m. to a vehicle on its roof with two people pinned inside. A man, who medics believe to be in his 40s,…
A man was pronounced dead following a crash in Northwest Austin near Steiner Ranch early Sunday. Austin-Travis County EMS Medics responded to the wreck in the 5600 block of North RM 620 just after 2 a.m. Four people were involved in the crash. Two people were taken to the Round Rock Medical Center with serious…
Texas Department of Transportation officials have set a goal of eliminating traffic deaths statewide by 2050, with a midpoint goal of reducing deaths by half by 2035. With 3,641 traffic deaths statewide in 2018, nearly 10 per day, deaths would have to drop by about 120 annually to meet those goals. The last day without…
Traffic deaths in Austin are up 30% compared with this time in 2018, and Austin police are urging drivers and pedestrians to use caution going into the summer months, when traffic fatalities usually increase. Thirty people have been killed on Austin roads so far this year, an increase from 23 traffic fatalities by the same…
A Capital Metro bus driver who struck and killed a cyclist on the University of Texas campus last month was driving erratically and might have been impaired at the time of the crash. According to a search warrant filed in court on Feb. 15, the driver, 40-year-old Mindi Taylor Stafford, failed part of a field…
Pedestrians made up 42 percent of all traffic deaths in Austin last year — the largest proportion in recent years, according to available police data — and more pedestrians died on Interstate 35 than on any other road in the city according to an analysis by the American-Statesman. In 2018, the city saw 74 traffic…
A 21-year-old who was riding a Lime scooter when he collided with an Uber vehicle near Sixth Street last week has died, becoming the city’s first traffic death involving an electric stand-up scooter since the devices began popping up in April, according to Dell Seton Medical Center officials and Austin police. The scooter rider, identified…
