Accidents News and Updates

Victims in fatal collision identified

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…

Wreck in Leander still under investigation

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…

City to pay $250,000

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…

Two killed in U.S. 183 crash

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…

Travis County will pay for damage to SUV

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…

Woman dies after wreck in Killeen

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…

Two men hurt in crash

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…

SUV kills woman in downtown Austin

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…

Humvee crash kills three in Temple

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…