Ice Storm Causes Multi-Car Accident

Shannon Weidemann

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Due to icy road conditions a car slid on U.S. 183 by McNeil Drive creating a multi-car pile-up. No one was seriously injured.

The first car started the accident after sliding on the ice. It was rear-ended causing a chain reaction of at least 3 cars.

"Everything happened very slowly. It was really scary," said Jose Gonzalez, a passenger in a blue 1998 GMC truck involved in the crash.

Gonzalez was driving with two friends to a job doing electrical work when they saw two cars that were involved in an accident on an overpass over Anderson Mill Road. He said the driver of his car was traveling about 45 mph. He honked and hit the brakes but couldn't stop because the road was too icy. The truck, instead, swerved into the median barrier along the left side of the road.

The northbound highway was shut down while the accident was cleared causing traffic slowdowns in the area. Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services reports that paramedics took one person to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.