Four people were killed, including two pedestrians, in four separate traffic accidents during a five-hour period overnight and early Wednesday, police said.
The rains that hit the area after midnight appeared to have played a role in three of the fatalities, officers said.
Police said Liza Marie Hunt, 30, was killed in a wreck in the 8100 block of Fredericksburg Road near the Datapoint Drive intersection at about 1:30 a.m.
Officers said the woman’s silver Toyota was traveling about 70 mph south without her headlights on when she apparently lost control and the car slammed into a telephone pole. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Only about half an hour earlier, police had responded to another one-car crash in the 6300 block of Spring Time Drive. Officers said Lizsandra Rodriguez, 33, was driving east when she lost control of her car, which crossed two lanes of traffic, a sidewalk and the front yard of a house before it struck a tree.
Officers said Rodriguez was not wearing a seat belt and was critically injured when she struck the steering wheel, gear shift and dashboard of her 2005 Mercury. She was pronounced dead shortly after 1 a.m. at University Hospital.
The other two fatalities involved men attempting to cross busy highways after dark. One was struck by two cars as he attempted to run across the 6700 block of SW Loop 410 near Daytona Street at 11:50 p.m. Tuesday.
Julian Torrez, 37, was hit by a northbound 2004 Cadillac, then run over by a 2007 Mercedes-Benz, police reported.
Officers said another man crossing U.S. 281 earlier Tuesday night was struck by a southbound Kia sedan whose driver swerved but could not avoid hitting him. Raymond Cisneros, 41, was pronounced dead at 10:13, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office.
EMS paramedics “tried treating him, but there was nothing they could do,” said police Sgt. Don Mize. “You don’t ever want to cross six lanes of traffic, especially at night.”
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