An 83-year-old man was killed Wednesday morning when he was hit by a car while trying to cross Burnet Road at Richcreek Road. William Boykin, who was using a walker, was crossing Burnet when the light turned green, and he was hit by a Honda Civic, police said. It was dark at the time of…
On woman was killed and another person was injured about 6 a.m. Friday in a head-on collision on Texas 21 near FM 3403 near Lexington. Rene Vega, 43, of Dime Box was killed when eastbound pickup driven by Houston Sutton crossed the center line and struck Vega’s vehicle. Vega died at the scene, and Sutton…
A death row inmate freed after an appeals court overturned his capital murder conviction has died in an East Texas pickup wreck. Michael Roy Toney, 43, died at 11 a.m. Saturday in Cherokee County when his truck veered off FM 347 and overturned. He was ejected and crushed, the Department of Public Safety said. Toney…
A Burnet County sheriff’s deputy was killed early Saturday morning when his car veered off the road, possibly because he struck a deer, officials said. About 1. a.m., Deputy Francis David Blake was responding to a wreck on Park Road 4, about two miles south of Texas 29, when he overcorrected and skidded off Texas…
The Department of Public Safety has identified the victims in a head-on collision Thursday morning on U.S. 183 north of Lockhart, spokeswoman Tela Mange said. Alison Barry, 31, of San Antonio was driving an Acura SUV northbound on U.S. 183 near FM 1185, authorities said. A Nissan Pathfinder driven by Bobby White Jr., 20, of…
Leander investigators on Friday afternoon continued their investigation into a collision Thursday that killed one woman and seriously injured one man. Maria Teran-Arvizu Of Dripping Springs, a passenger in a pickup driven by Antonio Segura of Leander, died at the scene of the crash at the intersection of the 183-A tollway and Crystal Falls Parkway,…
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…
