Three people are dead after the car they were driving in plummeted from SH 130 southbound onto Tesla Road in southeast Austin overnight on Sunday.Austin Travis
According to a database from the Texas Department of Transportation, there have been 381 crashes in a two-mile stretch along SH 130 and Tesla Road, from 2023 to now-- seven of them being fatal. Portions of SH 130 have a speed limit of 85 miles per hour, the highest speed limit anywhere in the nation. in southeast Austin overnight on Sunday.
"We don't understand how this could have happened, that toll road is so dangerous," said Monica Rivera. "I'm still calling them, I'm still sending them text messages and I'm texting them like, 'Why y'all do this? Why y'all leave me, you know I need y'all here,'" said Rivera, "they were so close to making it home."Rivera added she's in shock because this happened on a drive, and on the roads, the girls were familiar with, "they would take that road to the toll road all the way to my mom's house.
"It really could have been prevented," Rivera said because of a speed limit that high, and the lack of lighting in the area, her sisters are now gone forever.
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