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In a blow to businesses that contact drivers after car wrecks, Texas’ law enforcement and transportation agencies have agreed to drop telephone numbers from crash reports. The Texas Transportation Commission is scheduled to consider the new reporting form at a meeting today in Fort Worth. The inclusion of phone numbers on the reports has prompted…

Austin City Council unanimously passed a ban last week on text messaging while driving, though a few speakers raised concerns that the ban  is too broad and urged council members to spend more time refining it. The ban was supposed to take effect November 2; instead, it will take effect January 1. Council Member Mike…

The National Transportation Safety Board has determined that a punctured tire caused the bus crash that killed 17 members of Houston’s Vietnamese Catholic Community last year. The August 2008 accident happened when a charter bus carrying 55 passengers to a retreat in Missouri plunged over a highway bridge in Sherman, about 60 miles north of…

Austin City Council members  approved a resolution last week saying it is their “clear will” that police officers not personally collect blood from people suspected of driving while intoxicated. During the meeting, police leaders told the council that they have abandoned plans to train a group of officers to act as phlebotomists. Police Chief Art…

A man is dead after being struck by a car while riding his bicycle early Sunday. Police Lt. Darrell Boydston said the man, whose name and age have not been released, was struck in the 1900 block of East Texas 71 near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Boydston said no one was charged in the collision. A…

Robert Walden age 25, a Fort Hood soldier, died Friday night after being struck by a car when he attempted to cross Clear Creek Road at about 10:45 p.m. He was struck by a Mazda Tribute SUV traveling north in the outside lane and taken to Darnall Army Medical Center. The driver of the Mazda…

The Texas Department of Public Safety is asking for witnesses to help in the investigation of a Tuesday morning collision that injured a Cedar Park couple while they were riding a two-person bicycle. Angie Hughes, 31, was in critical condition Tuesday afternoon at University. Medical Center Brackenridge, according to DPS spokesman Lisa Block. Her, husband,…

An 18-wheeler struck and killed a pedestrian Tuesday morning on RM 620 near Quinlan Park Road. The identity of the victim, who appeared to be about 30 years old, was not released, Travis County sheriff’s Capt. Art Cardenas said. Witnesses told investigators they saw the man walking on the side of the road about 8…

A man was killed and two others injured in a wreck late Saturday that occurred on General Williamson Drive in northwst Travis County, according to the sheriff’s office. Jose Raul Guillen-Ortiz, a 29-year-old passenger, was not wearing a seat belt. He died at the scene. A dispatcher with the Travis County sheriff’s office said that…

28-year-old Beverly Leeann Baker of Round Rock was killed Sunday in a wreck just before 3 a.m. in the 11000 block of South Texas 195 in Killeen. Officers responded to a report of a Jeep traveling north in the southbound lane of Texas 195  As they were en route, callers reported a crash at 2:54…