East Austin residents say they’ve been asking for warning signs and guardrails for decades to keep people safe.
PUBLISHED 5:48 PM CDT Apr. 26, 2023AUSTIN, Texas —The recent drownings in Austin are sparking outrage in communities that say they have been vocalizing safety concerns about Lady Bird Lake long before this year’s Rainey Street deaths.
According to a Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office, 297 people have died from drowning from 2009 through 2021. Austin Police Department reports five late night Rainey Street Trailhead drownings since 2014The city’s parks department and APD say they are working to improve safety around the waterEast Austin residents say drownings in Lady Bird Lake have been ongoing for decades, but the city has done very little to improve safety conditions in their neighborhood.
Spectrum News requested data on all drownings in Lady Bird Lake since 2013. An APD spokesperson said they did not have that data readily available. We were able to obtain some records from Austin Emergency Medical Services. The information they gave us shows 16 drowning deaths within 300 feet of Austin area lakes from 2018 through 2022.
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