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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.