Teenager hospitalized after multi-vehicle rollover crash on Decker Ln
AUSTIN, TX – A teenager was hospitalized following a multi-vehicle rollover crash on Decker Lane on Friday afternoon, according to information from Austin-Travis County EMS.
#ATCEMS & @Traviscoesd12 are on scene of a Rollover Collision at 9200 Decker Ln (15:25). #ATCEMSMedics reporting a 4 vehicle collision, with 1 vehicle that rolled over. 2 patients involved, one was briefly pinned in their vehicle. 1 patient has been declared a Trauma Alert. MTF.
— ATCEMS (@ATCEMS) October 22, 2021
The crash occurred in the 9200 block of Decker Ln near Lake Walter E. Long at 3:25 p.m., when four vehicles collided. One of those vehicles overturned, causing at least one person to be briefly pinned within the wreckage.
A person in their late teens was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center for the treatment of severe, possibly life-threatening injuries.
A second victim refused treatment at the scene.
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