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Car collides with SUV in Mustang Ridge, Texas
Sunday, 11 Nov 2012
By Madison Roberts
KXAN
MUSTANG RIDGE, Texas (KXAN) - On Sunday afternoon, the driver of a Honda Civic died after a crash with a Chevy Tahoe in the south bound lanes of State Highway 130.
Mustang Ridge Police tell KXAN the accident happened in the newly opened section of SH130 Toll, where the speed limit is 85 mph.
Police are still investigating the cause of the accident and did not say how fast the cars were traveling. But they did confirm that wild hogs were not a factor in the crash. Four accidents involved wild hogs the first night the toll road opened.
The driver and the passenger of the Tahoe suffered minor injuries. The driver in the Civic, Martha Harris, 60, from Lockhart died at the scene.
Police said the accident happened when one of the vehicle's was coming onto the on-ramp at Old Lockhart Road when the two vehicles collided.
The 41 mile toll road opened Oct. 24. The road has the highest posted speed limit in the U.S. at 85 mph.
Today was the first day drivers paid tolls on the road. Prior the road had been free to drivers wanting to try out the new road.
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This article is so totally inaccurate and off-base, it's hard to call it reporting. It's more like inventing...TURF & TAG called a press conference to lay out citizen objections to Cintra's toll road contract, none of which this reporter details. She instead wrote an article about the tollway's first fatality mentioning the boycott in the last paragraph and never states why. She simply says we called for a boycott due to Cintra's connection with the project.
TURF's objections are not based on what company operates the road, but on the anti-taxpayer, anti-property rights, sweetheart deal giveaways in this public private partnership contract like the non-compete clause and manipulation of speed limits for profit. Here's the REAL story.
High-speed toll road has first fatality
By Vianna Davila - Express-News
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
A Lockhart woman was killed on the Texas 130 toll road in what is the first fatality since the corridor's new segment opened last month.
Though the Sunday afternoon crash immediately revived questions about the road's 85 mph speed limit, the fastest in the country, investigators have not yet determined if speed was a factor.
The new Texas 130 segment, a band of asphalt cutting through the open land of Central Texas, stretches 41 miles from south Austin to Interstate 10 in Seguin, passing west of Lockhart.
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Link to article here.
More shoddy reporting that connects our boycott to concerns with feral hogs not the privatization of our public roads and the sweetheart deal that gives Cintra guaranteed profits and the ability to prohibit competing free routes.
11/13/2012 08:47 AM
Protesters speak out against new SH 130 toll
Protestors in San Antonio are asking drivers to boycott a road that brings them right here to Austin.
The new 41-mile stretch of SH 130 has the highest speed limit in the country—85 miles per hour. However, groups like Texans United for Reform and Freedom say they have concerns with Spain-based Cintra, the company that operates the toll.
Protestors say the highway poses a danger to the public with its 85-mph speed limit, and the state has done little to prevent collisions with feral hogs.
The road had its first fatal crash over the weekend.
"I think the whole thing is a boondoggle. It's a big fat failure,” protestor Terri Hall said. “The only language that our politicians and Cintra understand is money. So we need to vote with our wallets and our cars and say no to foreign-owned toll roads in Texas. So we're asking Texans to boycott this road."
This past weekend marked the first time drivers had to pay to use the road, which has only been open for about two weeks.
The group says they plan on making their presence known here in Austin at the start of the next legislative session in January.