On Tuesday morning, January 12, a man died in a two vehicle accident.

According to authorities, the accident happened shortly before 6 a.m. when 40 year old Daniel Chavez-Martinez was pulling out of his neighborhood of Trinity Oaks to head south on Highway 281. As he pulled into the intersection his vehicle was hit by a pickup truck.

According to local people this intersection is always dangerous and motorists have to be especially alert when trying to go either north or south on the highway. They say that given the amount of construction it is hard to see and even more so when it is dark.

The Bexar-Bulverde volunteer fire department responded and Chavez-Martinez was transported by air but died on the way to university hospital. The fire department says that this is the third fatal accident in the area off Highway 281 in the last few months.

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Driving can be dangerous but a lot depends on where you live.

A new report has been issued, which uses the data from the Federal Highway Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and analyzes it by each of the states in the country.

Looking at Texas, it is 18th on the list which is based on the chance per person of being involved in a fatal car accident. With a population of just over 26 million, each person has a one in 3,586 chance of being involved in a fatal crash. When it comes to the chances of actual dying, those in Texas have a one in 7,820 chance of being killed. With over 330,000 miles of road, there were 3,382 fatalities on the road in 2013. The highest number of fatalities is in the Dallas Fort Worth area.

This includes not only those inside the vehicle but also pedestrians.

The safest place to drive is Washington DC with one in 32,322 people being killed in a traffic accident and only 20 road deaths in 2013.

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On Friday evening, October 16, three people died in a two vehicle crash on Highway 281.

According to authorities the accident happened shortly after 6.30 p.m. on Highway 281 around two miles south of Jacksboro. They said that 19 year old Brandon Tyler, of San Antonio who was driving a Mitsubishi vehicle was travelling south on Highway 281 to Highway 300. Tyler then attempted to turn left onto Highway 38, however, the Texas Department of Public Safety believe that he failed to stop and yield the right of way and was struck by a 2013 Peterbilt trash truck driven by 62 year old Lloyd Anthony Cannady, of Weatherford, who was travelling north on Highway 281.

The crash caused both vehicles to come to rest in a field and the impact ejected the female passenger in Tyler’s car, who was 18 year old Katrina Marie Wood, also of San Antonio. Tragically both drivers were trapped in their vehicles as they both burst in to flames. All three were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.

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On Thursday, August 13, an accident on Texas 130 left five family members dead and four injured.

According to Mustang Ridge Police, the accident happened around 8 a.m. off the northbound lanes of Texas 130 in Caldwell County, near the intersection with Texas 21. A light colored SUV blew a tire and left the roadway, rolling down an embankment. In the vehicle were nine people who were Mireya and Antonio Esquivel, their six children and Mireya Esquivel’s mother. They were on their way home to Round Rock from a family vacation in Mexico.

Police say that no one in the vehicle was wearing a seat belt and they do not yet know who was driving nor at what speed the vehicle was travelling.

Mireya and Antonio Esquivel, Mireya’s mother, Maria Carranza, and their 14 year old son Jorge died at the scene and the other five children were taken to Dell Children’s Medical Center by helicopter and ambulances. The four year old child, Nathan died of severe brain trauma in hospital and the four surviving children are now being cared for by relatives. Two of them, nine year old Santos and three year old Jesus have been released although Santos is in a wheelchair with a crushed ankle and broken femur.

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On Friday morning, August 7, a man from San Antonio was killed in a head on crash.

According to police, the accident happened around 9 a.m. on Vance Jackson Road near Rim Pass. A Porsche being driven north by 50 year old Fernando Sepulveda approached an intersection and then Sepulveda lost control of the vehicle and crossed into the oncoming lane and hit a minivan head on.

Sepulveda died at the scene of multiple blunt force injuries sustained in the collision and the driver of the mini van was taken to an area hospital but his condition is not yet known nor the extent of his injuries.

Vance Jackson was shut down for more than two hours from Loop 1604 to Rim Pass.

The accident is still under investigation and it is not yet know whether alcohol or drugs were factors in the crash.

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