Five people were injured, and one was killed, at a medical facility in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday evening when a vehicle crashed into the emergency room of St. David’s North Austin Medical Center.
The driver of the vehicle in the crash was the only fatality in the incident, Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services told the Washington Examiner, and several people were transported to other nearby hospitals with potentially serious injuries.
Officials said it appears the crash was unintentional and that there is no threat to the general public, based on preliminary results. However, an investigation into the cause of the accident is still being conducted by the Austin Police Department’s Vehicular Homicide Unit.
A video, appearing to be in the immediate aftermath of the crash, shows a smoke-filled room with debris and a wheelchair turned over on the ground. What sounds like a vehicle’s wheels moving can be heard, and its lights are blinking. A woman and child are led away from the wreckage.
Earlier reports indicated that there were 10 people injured in Tuesday’s crash, but Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services has since corrected the number to five injured, with patients being transported to other facilities to alleviate some of the strain on the hospital.
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St. David’s North Austin is closed to ambulance transports but is open to walk-in emergency department patients, the hospital said.
St. David’s North Austin Medical Center is described on its website as a “441-bed multi-specialty, acute care facility dedicated to the highest level of women’s health services, including maternity and newborn care.”
