Jaymie Clark said the last thing she remembers before getting hit was having a friendly conversation with a fellow shopper leaving the Walmart Supercenter in Round Rock. A car had struck her in the store parking lot. One witness estimated the car had been driving at a speed of 25 miles per hour. The impact…
A woman was struck and killed by a vehicle as she tried to cross the southbound lanes of Interstate 35 in New Braunfels on Tuesday, authorities said. At 10:54 a.m. New Braunfels police responded to the 300 block of I-35 to reports of a female pedestrian involved in a hit-and-run. Emergency crews found the woman…
A $100,000 bond has been set for a 38-year-old truck driver facing four counts of criminally negligent homicide for a Christmas Eve traffic wreck that killed four members of a Rio Grande Valley family. Authorities say Antonio Quintero of Weslaco is jailed in Willacy County. Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Johnny Hernandez says Quintero…
Austin police have identified a 35-year-old pedestrian who was killed while traveling in a crosswalk in South Austin last week. According to a preliminary police investigation, a white Toyota Prius was heading west on Little Texas Lane and turning south onto South Congress Avenue on Dec. 21 at 4:10 p.m. Curtis Thomas Grace was in…
A pair of deadly car crashes in Austin and two other serious crashes across Central Texas including a fiery scene where bystanders came to the rescue sent several people to hospitals with serious accident injuries Tuesday. The first fatal crash was reported about 1:30 a.m. on Interstate 35 south of San Marcos, near the border of…
Though the total number of fatal crashes in Austin has dropped in 2016, twice as many pedestrians have been killed on Interstate 35 and its frontage roads this year compared with 2015. Four of the eight pedestrian deaths on I-35 this year have occurred in the past three weeks. On Tuesday around noon, a man…
Dense fog over weekend causes several crashes Numerous crashes snarled traffic in the Austin area Monday morning as a blanket of dense fog rolled in during the morning commute. According to the National Weather Service, fog limited visibility in some areas to less than a quarter of a mile before 9 a.m. Authorities across…
A woman died Sunday morning in a two vehicle crash on Interstate 35 in Hays County, according to Buda police. The crash occurred shortly before 7 a.m. Sunday on the southbound side of 1-35 at Exit 217 in Buda, department spokeswoman Brittany Tate said. Two vehicles collided, killing one person at the scene and sending…
Three people were taken to the hospital and 12 others were treated at the scene Sunday after a multiple vehicle collision on the westbound Ben White Boulevard flyover to southbound Interstate 35. The crash occurred about 2:30 p.m. Sunday and involved six vehicles, including a semi-truck; Austin- Travis County EMS officials said. Three children and…
