Accidents News and Updates

Deadly Accident on Local Roads

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. …

Man arrested in hit-and-run

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…

Worker Killed in I-35 hit-and-run

A construction worker was killed in a crash on southbound Interstate 35 about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. Police said a dark-colored SUV ran through a clearly marked construction zone and hit Fontino Cortes-Cruz, 36, in the 11400 block of 1-35 near…

Traffic casualties a growing global plague

A vast majority of the world’s countries ”85 percent” lack adequate laws to address the growing problem of traffic deaths and injuries, according to the World Health Organization’s first report on road safety. Traffic injuries are the ninth-leading cause of…

Man in motorcycle wreck dies

A man who was involved in a motorcycle crash June 3 died last Tuesday of injuries he received in the crash. Mitchell Frantz, 46, was riding a Harley-Davidson east on U.S. 290 near William Cannon Drive about 8:30 p.m. when…

One killed, 3 hurt in collision in Travis County

One man was killed and three people were injured in a head-on collision Tuesday night on Texas 71 in Travis County, the Texas Department of Public Safety reported Wednesday. The collision occured about 9 p.m. in the 9400 block of…

1 killed, 3 injured in crash in Fentress

A man died and three other people were injured Friday night after a pickup hauling a 1998 utility trailer hit a car and then collided head-on with an SUV, Texas Department of Public Safety officials said. The crash occured near…

Camp owner indicted in wreck

Lynda Mescher, the owner of a Spicewood horse camp, was indicted by a Burnet County grand jury Tuesday on manslaughter and injury to a child charges in connection with a January incident in which a pickup she was driving rolled…