Pedestrian Critically Injured In North Austin Car Collision

AUSTIN, TX — A pedestrian sustained critical, life-threatening injuries after being struck by a car Friday evening.

The incident occurred along the 9000 block of Northgate Boulevard around 7 p.m., Austin-Travis County EMS medics wrote on Twitter. The patient was transported to Dell Seton Medical Center for treatment.

No further details were disclosed.

Medics did not provide the gender and approximate age of the injured person as is their custom.

The incident marks at least the fifth time in just over two months that a pedestrian has been either killed or injured on Austin roadways:

• On Oct. 10, a pedestrian was fatally struck by a vehicle in North Austin along the 9200 block of Burnet Road north of U.S. 183 just before 2 a.m., Austin-Travis County EMS medics reported via Twitter at the time. Despite life-saving measures, the person was pronounced dead at the scene.
• On Oct. 18, Raymond Cipple, 54, was fatally struck by a vehicle while trying to cross an East Austin street. The incident occurred along the 1100 block of Airport Boulevard at 8 p.m., according to a police advisory. A police investigation showed that a white, 2015 Dodge 350 was traveling southbound when Cipple tried to cross the street mid block, police said. The man was struck while walking toward the west curb line, police said, before being pronounced dead at the scene.
• On Nov. 13, just past 10 p.m. along the 1100 block of Airport Boulevard a woman was killed in a section of the roadway not designated for pedestrians as detailed in a police account. Police said the woman was transported to Dell Seton Medical Center, where she succumbed to her injuries six days later.
• On Dec. 4, Steven Lamont Hill, 43, was killed on impact after being hit by a car while riding a scooter along the 11500 block of a North Interstate 35 service road just before 11 p.m., according to a police account. Gerardo Rene Barlow, 32, subsequently was arrested for DWI.

Austin Police Department Senior Officer Bino Cadenas, a spokesperson for the force, recently highlighted the stretch of Airport Boulevard where two pedestrian fatalities have occurred within just over a month of the other. Cadenas tweeted about the road stretch on Friday in pleading with motorists to slow down.

"We have had two traffic fatalities in this section of Airport Blvd.," Cadenas wrote on Twitter. "District Reps doing their part to try to bring awareness and have drivers SLOW DOWN," he added, using all capital letters to emphasize his point.