Driver dead, 5 including 2 children injured after car crashes into Texas hospital
Emergency and hospital officials reportedly said that one child and one adult were hospitalised in critical condition
Five people were injured and a driver died after acar crashed into a hospital in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, February 13. The injured people include two children. Emergency and hospital officials said that one child and one adult were hospitalised in critical condition, according to NBC News.
Reports said the man who was driving the sedan that plowed into the emergency room area of St. David’s North Austin Medical Center. He was pulled out of the wreckage and succumbed to his injuries despite receiving CPR.
The facility's chief medical officer Dr. Peter DeYoung said that the survivors, who were injured, were in the lobby of the hospital's emergency room section at the time of the accident. Emergency room doctors were quick to act, helping the driver and other others who were injured. DeYoung called the driver’s death a “tragedy.” One of the injured adults and the two injured children were taken to Dell Children’s Medical Center, Austin-Travis County EMS said in a statement.
The facility's floor was covered with water after the crash ruptured a fish tank, said DeYoung. According to Austin Police, it does not appear as though the driver deliberately caused any harm. “There is no threat to the general public. Based off preliminary information and details gathered at this time, this incident does not appear to be an intentional act. APD officers continue to assist our first responder partners, and the investigation is ongoing,” the department wrote in a statement on X.
An Austin-Travis County EMS captain, Christa Stedman, confirmed that vehicular homicide detectives were assigned to the case by police. After the crash, the hospital closed E.R. to patients who were arriving by ambulance. This hospital is among 16 hospitals offering basic trauma care in the Austin region, a Texas nonprofit that tracks medical care has said.
