Accidents News and Updates

TxDOT goal: No traffic deaths by 2050

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…

Austin Traffic Deaths up 30%

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…

Bus driver who fatally struck cyclist possibly impaired

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…

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Pedestrian deaths reached record levels in 2018

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…

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First Scooter Death in Austin

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…

U.S. 290 Fatal Semi Crash

3 killed in crash with semi on U.S. 290 Three people were killed Tuesday morning in a collision on U.S. 290 at the intersection with Roy Davis Road, just east of Elgin, authorities said. According to a preliminary investigation by…

Party boat erupts into ‘flash fire’

Three people were hospitalized with burn injuries Saturday night after a fire erupted in a rented party at on Lake Travis, accord to Lake Travis Fire and Rescue. Nine people on board had docked the rented boat on Starnes Island when…

Austin Traffic Deaths Down in 2017

On Austin roads last year the number of traffic deaths in 2017 fell to 76.  This was the second consecutive year in which there was a decrease, from 79 in 2016, following a record-setting spike in 2015, when 102 people…

3 Crashes Kill 4 in Central Texas in 12-hour Period

Four people were killed in auto accidents within a 12-hour period ending Friday morning in three unrelated crashes in Central Texas. The first traffic death occurred about 8:45 p.m. Thursday in Kyle on the Interstate 35 frontage road at the…