Andrew Traub
|Accidents
SUV kills woman in downtown Austin
A woman who was jogging on a sidewalk near downtown was killed Friday afternoon when an SUV struck her while backing out of a private driveway, Austin police said.
Witnesses told police that she was jogging in the 200 block of West 15th Street, between Colorado and Lavaca streets.
Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services took her to University Medical Center Brackenridge, where she was pronounced dead on arrival, police said.
The incident is still under investigation.