Crime & Safety
Police Identify Teen Killed in Single-Car Crash
The crash happened in East Austin on Tuesday morning.
Police are trying to determine what caused a single-car crash that killed a teen in East Austin.
Police identified the teen as 17-year-old Lance Jordan Thomas in a news release.
The crash occurred at about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday on the westbound frontage road of U.S. 290 near Harris Branch Parkway. Thomas was found dead on the scene, according to the Austin-Travis County EMS. The other passengers, a male teen and two females in their 20s, were transported to UMC Breckenridge and suffered non-life threatening injuries.
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The road was reopened at about 4:15 a.m. Police have not determined if alcohol or speed were factors in the collision.
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