Accidents

City Council members voted Thursday to settle for $250,000 a lawsuit brought by two men who were struck in 2006 by an Austin police officer’s car while they were changing a flat tire. The money will be used to cover medical expenses and be divided between Marvin Clayborne and Stephan Center, both of whom were…

Caldwell County and Department of Public Safety investigators are trying to determine the cause of a head-on collision that killed two drivers Thursday morning on U.S. 183 about three miles north of Lockhart. Investigators did not have identification information for the victims, a man and a woman who were alone in their respective vehicles, DPS…

Travis County commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved paying more than $12,000 to Farmers Insurance for damage caused to an SUV in a May collision with a Travis County patrol car. On May 13, Deputy Dennis Malinger was responding to an emergency —without his lights or sirens activated —when he ran a stop sign, according to…

A 35-year-old Killeen woman died Friday after the car she was driving left the road, collided with a stack of railroad ties and vaulted onto an embankment before catching fire, witnesses tolk Killeen police. Witnesses said that the red Mercury Cougar driven by Nutosha Rena Allen traveled west in the 4100 block of Water Street…

Two men, one with life-threatening injuries, were treated Friday at University Medical Center Brackenridge after a wreck on Texas 71 at FM 973 in Southeast Austin, police said. A white truck and blue Cadillac collided at 3:31 a.m. and the passenger in the Cadillac suffered the most serious injuries.  The driver of the car was…

A woman who was jogging on a sidewalk near downtown was killed Friday afternoon when an SUV struck her while backing out of a private driveway, Austin police said. Witnesses told police that she was jogging in the 200 block of West 15th Street, between Colorado and Lavaca streets. Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services took…

A National Guard Humvee lost control on Interstate 35 on Wednesday, triggering a six-vehicle crash that killed the soldier driving the Humvee and two other drivers, including one from Austin, authorities said. The Humvee was traveling south in the rain near the small town of Troy, north of Temple, about 11 a.m. when it went…

A Georgetown man pled guilty Thursday to intoxication assault and aggravated assault relating to a car crash last year in which a police officer’s leg was crushed, Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley said. As Part of a plea deal with prosecutors, Tommy Hagar, 56, was sentenced to two 10-year prison terms, which will run…

A 5-year-old girl suffered life-threatening injuries after she was hit by an SUV Tuesday morning. Alyson Moreno was taken to Scott & White Memorial Hospital with injuries to her head, face and upper and lower body, Temple police said.  Moreno was with a group of children crossing East Adams Avenue at North 20th Street at…