An Austin police officer is eventually seen accessing the car and driving it into the driveway of a parking garage.
AUSTIN, Texas — Witness video from Downtown Austin appears to show a Waymo vehicle blocking an ambulance following a mass shooting on Sixth Street on Sunday morning.
Viewer Matthew Turnage recorded the video on West Sixth and Nueces streets around 2 a.m.
The video shows the Waymo stopped across both lanes of traffic as an ambulance approaches. An Austin police officer is eventually seen accessing the car and driving it into the driveway of a parking garage.
KVUE has contacted Waymo for more information. Representatives for the company said they are investigating the incident but have declined to comment on the record.Â
The shooting outside Buford’s bar on West Sixth Street left three people dead, including the suspect, and at least 14 people injured.
Austin-Travis County EMS medics and Austin Police Department officers responded to the scene within 57 seconds, ATCEMS Chief Robert Luckritz said.
At a press conference on Monday, Luckritz said the incident with the Waymo car did not affect the overall response to the shooting.
“We had more than 20 assets, resources, that responded to this event,” Luckritz said. “As was said at an earlier press conference, we were on scene within 57 seconds. And so in the grand scheme of the impact on the overall incident, we don’t believe it had any impact on patient outcomes.”
Luckritz said ATCEMS medics and other public safety partners work closely with the autonomous vehicle vendors that operate in Austin.
“I will say that we’re already in touch with Waymo and and the autonomous vehicles to give them our concerns and work with them in order to try to address this moving forward,” he said.