Six hospitalized following two-car collision

by Alexandria Randolph

A two-car collision on US 281 on Saturday evening sent six to the hospital with “incapacitating injuries,” said Marble Falls Police.

Marble Falls Capt. Glenn Hanson said the accident occurred just after 7 p.m. in the 900 block of south US 281, just south of the Max Starcke Dam Road intersection, when the driver of a Honda Accord traveling in the outside lane “saw a box in the road, swerved to miss it, lost control and crossed the center line.”

Hanson said the vehicle traveled perpendicular to traffic and was T-boned by an oncoming 2004 Saturn SUV traveling in the northbound inside lane.

Hanson said a 58 year-old man, 58 year-old woman, 67 year-old man and 69 year-old woman in the Honda were all transported to University Medical Center Brackenridge. The 67-year-old male, the driver, was transported by ground ambulance, another by Air Evac 49 and the two remaining were transported by Starflight 2.

The Saturn was occupied by a 22 year-old and a 23 year-old, both female, and both transported by ground ambulance to Lakeway Regional Medical Center.

“All four in the Honda have broken bones,” Hanson said, and added an extrication of passengers from the Honda was necessary.

Hanson said the Honda was registered in Austin and the Saturn in Copperas Cove.

For more on the story, see Friday's Highlander.