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A Capital Metro bus driver who struck and killed a cyclist on the University of Texas campus last month was driving erratically and might have been impaired at the time of the crash. According to a search warrant filed in court on Feb. 15, the driver, 40-year-old Mindi Taylor Stafford, failed part of a field…

Traffic deaths in Austin are up 30% compared with this time in 2018, and Austin police are urging drivers and pedestrians to use caution going into the summer months, when traffic fatalities usually increase. Thirty people have been killed on Austin roads so far this year, an increase from 23 traffic fatalities by the same…

Texas Department of Transportation officials have set a goal of eliminating traffic deaths statewide by 2050, with a midpoint goal of reducing deaths by half by 2035. With 3,641 traffic deaths statewide in 2018, nearly 10 per day, deaths would have to drop by about 120 annually to meet those goals. The last day without…

A man was pronounced dead following a crash in Northwest Austin near Steiner Ranch early Sunday. Austin-Travis County EMS Medics responded to the wreck in the 5600 block of North RM 620 just after 2 a.m. Four people were involved in the crash. Two people were taken to the Round Rock Medical Center with serious…

One person is dead and another was injured following a wreck in North Austin early Sunday. Austin-Travis County EMS Medics responded to the corner of W. Braker Lane and Burnet Road around 8:45 a.m. to a vehicle on its roof with two people pinned inside. A man, who medics believe to be in his 40s,…

Trial Report – $200,000 Verdict

November 6, 2019

Case Description Our client, a 50 year old Indian American woman, slipped and fell on wet paint outside the Ulta Store at the Gateway shopping center near 183/360.  Gateway denied liability, pointing to a cone with a “wet paint” sign attached to it in front of the painted area.  Our client testified the cone was…

 January 2018 Trial Report Case Description The at-fault driver was exiting a private driveway onto Lamar which is two lanes in either direction.  A car was turning left out of that same driveway and she was parked to the right of it.  For whatever reason, she turned right into the first lane and then attempted…

Two people were killed in a crash in San Marcos involving a dump truck early Thursday, police said. Officers responded to the southbound lanes of Interstate 35 near CM Allen Parkway around 2:45 a.m. A vehicle that was possibly stopped in the road or going slow in the right lane was hit from behind by…

Three people were killed in a crash in Round Rock late Sunday while four people were injured. Officers responded to FM 1431 in between Interstate 35 and Stone Oak Drive around 11:25 p.m. Three vehicles were involved in the crash and FM 1431 was closed until 5:25 a.m. while police investigated. Police said all three…

A deadly crash in eastern Travis County has left two men dead and four people injured after a head-on collision Sunday evening according to Austin-Travis County EMS. The crash occurred around 9 p.m. near the intersection of Colfax and North Imperial drives in the Imperial Valley subdivision south of Lake Walter E. Long. Four ambulances,…