{"id":109248,"date":"2025-03-15T00:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T00:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/5-people-dead-in-massive-car-crash-in-austin-driver-charged\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T00:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T00:03:33","slug":"5-people-dead-in-massive-car-crash-in-austin-driver-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/5-people-dead-in-massive-car-crash-in-austin-driver-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"5 people dead in massive car crash in Austin, driver charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-03-14\/ABC_BreakingNews_091224%20%281%29.jpg\" alt><figcaption>ABC News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(AUSTIN, Texas) &#8212; A man is facing charges after five people were killed and 11 were hospitalized in a collision involving 17 vehicles, including a semi-truck, in Austin, Texas, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Solomun Weldekeal Araya, 37, has been charged with five counts of intoxication manslaughter and two counts of intoxication assault, according to Austin police.<\/p>\n<p>The accident unfolded at approximately 11:23 p.m. on Interstate 35 southbound, according to Capt. Krista Stedman, public information officer for Austin-Travis County EMS. Crews arrived on scene to find multiple patients pinned in their cars, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Five people died at the scene: three adults, one child and one infant, authorities said. Eleven others were taken to hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis incident was incredibly chaotic, and it was spread out over about a tenth of a mile,\u201d Stedman said. \u201cWe were able to get all the critical patients off the scene within about 40 minutes and, considering how complex the scene was, that&#8217;s pretty impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Transportation Safety Board said it&#8217;s launched a safety investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News (AUSTIN, Texas) &#8212; A man is facing charges after five people were killed and 11 were hospitalized in a collision involving 17 vehicles, including a semi-truck, in Austin, Texas, authorities said. Solomun Weldekeal Araya, 37, has been charged with five counts of intoxication manslaughter and two counts of<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/5-people-dead-in-massive-car-crash-in-austin-driver-charged\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}