Austin – Man Killed in Texas 71 Collision Identified
Posted on Monday, December 16th, 2019 at 12:34 am
The Austin Police Department has released the name of the victim who died in a car accident on Texas 71, Friday morning.
The fatality was identified as 27-year-old Cody Allen Faust.
Just before 7:00 a.m., local police were called onto TX 71 to assist in a vehicle accident. According to the report, a vehicle was traveling along the highway when, for reasons that had not yet been determined, it drifted into the opposing lanes and crashed head-on with a passing Jeep. The driver of the vehicle, Cody Faust, was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased.
Meanwhile, Faust’s passenger sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was also taken to a nearby hospital for further medical attention.
Local investigators arrived at the scene to determine the reason that caused the vehicle to go out of control.