Austin's streets are still dangerous for walkers, with pedestrian deaths not improving despite fewer car crashes overall. It's a serious problem the city needs to address ASAP.
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Rising — being discussed more frequently. 5 mentions in the last 30 days, 2 the 60 before.
Fixing this could cost a lot, but ignoring it means more medical bills and lost productivity.
Everyone who walks or bikes in Austin will be safer.
Pedestrians are the ones most at risk.
The Texas boxing community is honoring Hannah Rapp after the rising boxer was killed in an alleged road rage crash while riding her bicycle.
Austin Police said a man riding a bicycle died Wednesday after being hit by a vehicle early Sunday morning.
Police say a blue Honda Civic hit Chaw-Long Shih on July 5. He died in a hospital three days later.
An adult pedestrian died after being hit by a vehicle on the westbound service road of East Ben White Boulevard, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.
According to Austin-Travis County EMS, the incident happened around 5:43 p.m. between 600 and 1218 E. Ben White Blvd. service road westbound.
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Although Austin has fewer overall automobile crashes than other major Texas cities, the percentage of crashes involving serious injury or death of a pedestrian is still at the same rate — 27.9 percent– as other large Texas cities. That is one conclus...
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