Heavy Fog Contributes To 32-Vehicle Pileup In Austin, Texas

More than 50 people were part of a pileup involving 32 vehicles — two of them semitrucks — just an hour after ringing in the new year in Austin. Authorities began receiving reports of multiple collisions around 1:09 a.m. Tuesday near southbound Texas 130 and Harold Green Road, where dense fog obscured the road, said Travis County sheriff’s Capt. Craig Smith. Paramedics evaluated 56 people and took nine to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries ranging from mild to serious, according to tweets from Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services. “I have been with the sheriff’s office 26 years, and I have never seen a collision of this size,” Smith said.