A blown-out tire sparked a terrifying wreck just after dawn in Mustang Ridge, sending a red Chevy careening out of control and leaving two folks banged up bad. The chaos unfolded around 5:45 a.m. near that lonely stretch of US-183 by the 11400 block, where pavement meets panic in an instant.
Cops pieced together a grim scene. That Chevy, traveling north like it had any other morning, got ambushed by a shredded tire. Bang! The driver fought the wheel but lost the battle, smacking into not one, but two concrete walls before flipping like a pancake on a drunk cook’s griddle. Then—because fate’s cruel like that—it clipped another vehicle before finally landing rubber-side down. Pure miracle it didn’t end worse.
Inside the wrecked Chevy? Two adults, now nursing serious injuries, hustled off to St. David’s in Austin. No word yet on whether they’ll be alright, but you can bet their morning coffee plans got canceled real quick. The other car? Packed with four grown-ups and a kid, walked away without a scratch. Their ride? Still drivable, because luck doesn’t play fair.
Cleanup crews swarmed the highway, shutting down lanes like a bad party no one wanted to attend. Morning commuters? Stuck crawling past twisted metal and flashing lights, praying they wouldn’t be next. By the time cops gave the all-clear, the wreckage was gone, but the questions lingered, like tire marks on blacktop.
Investigators are still scratching their heads over what exactly went wrong with that tire. Mechanical failure? Bad luck? Nobody’s spilling yet. But one thing’s certain, once the trucks hauled away the mess, the road was clean—no hidden dangers, just the ghost of what happened humming under rush-hour tires.
And life? It rolls on, as it always does, even when metal crumples and rubber fails. But for those two in the Chevy? Their Wednesday won’t be forgotten anytime soon.
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