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Date: 
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Denton Police on Monday released the names of the people involved in a head-on crash that left one person dead and two others critically hurt. The deceased was identified as 27-year-old Tessa Butler from Aubrey. She was killed when the Mazda in which she was a passenger was struck by a pickup truck driven by 21-year-old Hector Soto from Garland. The driver of the Mazda, Roger Bryant, age 49, from Denton remains hospitalized at Medical Center of Plano.
Date: 
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Two men are dead from a road rage incident, San Antonio police said Friday. Officers were called to the scene of the fatal car crash on San Pedro Avenue, just north of Basse Road, Friday around 2 p.m. A witness stated that the drivers of a silver Acura and a white Crown Victoria were racing at high speeds on San Pedro. The passenger in the Acura, who was hanging outside of the vehicle's window, was arguing with the driver of the Crown Victoria and at some point, fell out of the car near San Pedro and Avenue Del Rey.
Date: 
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Area: 
Austin, TX

A crash on Interstate 35 left a woman dead and two other injured Sunday morning.

The two-car crash happened around 7 a.m. near Turnersville Road outside of Buda.

EMS says the two people injured had non-life threatening injures. The woman who died and the two who were hurt were all in an Audi SUV.

The driver of the other vehicle involved, a white van, was OK.

It is not clear what caused the crash.

Date: 
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Area: 
Austin, TX

A motorcycle crash in central east Austin left one person injured on Wednesday.

EMS responded to East Martin Luther King Boulevard and Overhill Drive. EMS officials say the motorcyclist hit a parked car.

One person was taken to University Medical Center Brackenridge with life-threatening injuries.

Date: 
Sunday, March 9, 2014
A man from North Richland Hills is dead after his car collided with a tractor-trailer around 4:04 a.m. on the on-ramp to the eastbound lanes of I-635E from Highway 114. Police say the man was traveling the wrong way when his Honda collided head-on with the semi. The driver has been identified as 22-year-old Jorge Rico. Rico’s time of death is listed on the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s website as 4:15 a.m., with a cause of death being multiple blunt force injuries. Rico was the only person injured in the crash, which shut down the I-635E on-ramp for two hours.
Date: 
Friday, March 7, 2014
Area: 
Austin, TX
Eleven people were injured after a five-vehicle collision on North Lamar Boulevard at 39 1/2 Street around 3:30 Saturday afternoon. Several EMS crews responded to the rollover accident. The first reports indicated at least one patient was trapped inside a vehicle. Additional paramedics responded to 39th Street and Medical Parkway for a report of another patient involved in the accident.
Date: 
Friday, February 21, 2014

A Dallas single mother of two is in intensive care at Baylor Medical Center after she was critically injured in a wrong way crash by a woman police arrested repeatedly for drunk driving.

Erica Davidson was traveling on North Central Expressway Saturday night when her car was hit head on, by a vehicle driving southbound in the same lanes - the wrong direction.

“She tried to miss the person,” said Davidson’s mother, Pricellia Davidson. “Every lane that she went in, the person was coming straight for her,” Pricellia Davidson said.

Date: 
Monday, January 27, 2014
Area: 
Austin, TX

Icy roads have caused more than 200 crashes around Central Texas.

Police said Tuesday morning that they have responded to 260 crashes since midnight. About 137 of those happened after 7 a.m. Chief Art Acevedo says it appears about 40 wrecks are happening every hour. Two patrol units were reportedly rear-ended.

Austin-Travis County EMS crews reported 100 collisions between 5 a.m. and noon. Around 6:15 a.m. they responded to a 20-car collision on MoPac near Parmer Lane. Most of the wrecks earlier in the morning occurred in Northwest Austin near MoPac and U.S. 183.

Date: 
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Police said one person has died in a head-on crash following a wrong-way driver's trip down U.S. 75. Richardson police were following a wrong-way driver in a silver Nissan Murano who was headed southbound in the northbound lanes of U.S. 75/Central Expressway around 4 a.m. Monday. Police say the Murano driver clipped a vehicle traveling northbound in the 9000 block of North Central Expressway and kept going. No one was injured. A short time later, just north of Hall Street in Dallas, the driver of the Murano crashed head-on into a tan Toyota Camry.
Date: 
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Area: 
Austin, TX

Austin-Travis County EMS officials say they have responded to more than 100 wrecks since Thursday due to icy road conditions in the area. Police say they have responded to more than 250 crashes.

EMS responded to a 20-car pileup at Highway 290 and MoPac Expressway, and another multiple-car pileup at southbound U.S. 183 near Anderson Mill Thursday evening.

The City of Round Rock said that authorities responded to 28 accidents in Round Rock as of 9:45 p.m. Thursday.