A tractor-trailer slammed into backed-up traffic on Interstate 35 near the Texas-Oklahoma border on Monday, killing three people. The wreck occured on a section of I-35 where two lanes narrow to one because of work being done on a bridge, about two miles southwest of Gainesville and about thirteen miles south of the border with…
A man living at Fort Hood died Sunday evening in a Burnet Count wreck involving three motorcycles, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Albresie Latrell Williams, 20, died in th wreck on FM 963 about a mile and a half north of U.S. 183, according to police reports. Williams was driving a motorcycle…
Several people, including a 4-year-old boy, were injured during a boat collision on Lake Austin at dusk Saturday, according to emergency officials. The boy was taken to the hospitale with a head injury. The collision occured just before 8 p.m. when one recreational boat ran into the back of another near the Watersedge neighborhood and…
A wreck that killed two truck drivers and spilled hundreds of gallons of raw sewage onto a Bastrop County highway Wednesday was caused by a tire blowout, officials said Thursday. Department of Public Safety officials said that George Center, 37, of Austin was driving a UPS truck south on Texas 95 and that Larry Goodwill,…
A pedestrian was stuck by a vehicle and killed Thursday morning near the Y intersection in Oak Hill. The accident at U.S. 290 West and Circle Drive shut down several lanes of the highway for hours, officials said. Texas Department of Safety troopers said Daniel Jandle, 57, was trying to cross several lanes of traffic…
Police arrested a man Wednesday who is accused of forcing a pregnant woman to-drive him away from the scene of an accident, according to an arrest affidavit. The rollover collision happened about 12:20 p.m. Wednesday near the FM 969 and Blue Bluff Road. Kyle Jay Jones was the driver of the rolled-over vehicle and was…
Austin police are still investigating a crash from Tuesday morning in which a pedestrian, Ernest Lee Moss, was killed. Moss, 63, of Austin was hit by a gray Chevrolet Suburban as he was walking on the sidewalk at 8:21 a.m. on East 51st Street just east of Manor Road near Bruce Spruce Circle, police said. …
On Thursday, July 9, 2009, at 3 a.m. Kenneth Cottrell, a motorcyclist, was killed in a car accident. Rudy Lucero was driving a Mazda and hit the motorcycle on Road and 51st Street. Cottrell was taken to Brackenridge where he later died. Apparently, Lucero had been drinking as he was charged with intoxication manslaughter. Any witnesses are…
Austin police have charged David Delacerda, 30, who is accused of hitting a construction worker last week and leaving the scene, according to an arrest affidavit. The worker died. Delacerda was arrested after he was released from Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. The wreck happened about 1:30 a.m. in the 11400 block of…
