AUSTIN (KXAN) — One person died at the hospital following a single-vehicle collision on US 290 on Wednesday, April 22.
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The Austin Police Department said officers responded to the crash around 5:29 a.m. The crash happened in the 7200 block of East Highway 290 westbound.
Police identified the driver as 20-year-old Alex Benjamin Cuz Caal, who was taken to a local hospital where he died days later.
The incident is being investigated as Austin’s 27th fatal crash of 2026, resulting in 27 fatalities…