AUSTIN, Texas — Police have identified a 9-year-old girl killed in a two-vehicle crash on the I-35 service road in Southeast Austin as Lilliana Segura.
The crash happened around 7:41 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of the South I-35 northbound service road and the East state Highway 71 westbound service road, according to the Austin Police Department. It involved a Jeep Compass carrying a driver and two juvenile passengers and a Tesla Cybertruck carrying a single driver, police said.
Both juvenile passengers from the Jeep were taken to a hospital, where Segura was pronounced dead, police said. The other child remains hospitalized in critical condition. The drivers of both vehicles were also taken to hospitals for treatment, according to police.
Police said the Jeep was traveling north on the I-35 service road while the Tesla was traveling west on the East Ben White Boulevard service road. Investigators are still working to determine what led to the collision, police said.
Both drivers are cooperating with investigators, and police said neither was intoxicated at the time of the crash.
The crash is Austin’s 56th fatal crash of 2026.
Anyone with information is asked to call APD’s Vehicular Homicide Unit at 512-974-8111 or submit an anonymous tip to Capital Area Crime Stoppers at austincrimestoppers.org or by calling 512-472-8477.