# Horrible Crash in Austin; need a cite **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 7, 2025, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-crash-in-austin-need-a-cite/1022814 "2025-09-07T11:21:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-crash-in-austin-need-a-cite/1022814/1 "2025-09-07T11:21:22Z")
[Over here](https://www.nbcdfw.com/video/news/local/four-killed-austin-crash_dallas-fort-worth/199785/) is the only link I have to anything concerning a recent wrong-way crash near Austin, Texas. Four people were killed. I find it remarkable that even local newspapers sometimes do not remark on such crashes. My Google-fu is weak. Does anyone have a link to a newspaper report on this crash? Many thanks. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-crash-in-austin-need-a-cite/1022814/2 "2025-09-07T11:47:08Z")
The dateline on your cite is Feb 19 2016. The people in the vid are bundled up like it’s Feb in Texas, not early September. I suspect there’s some date confusion here. Or you cited a different article than you meant to. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-crash-in-austin-need-a-cite/1022814/3 "2025-09-07T11:55:40Z")
> [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](#): > > recent That crash occurred on February 19th: > **[Footage from Kyle wrong way driver crash on I-35 that killed four](https://www.fox7austin.com/news/footage-from-kyle-wrong-way-driver-crash-on-i-35-that-killed-four)** > > FOX 7 has obtained footage from the early Friday morning crash that killed four in Kyle. The three car accident happened on I-35 in Kyle, near Mitchell Motor Sports, shortly after 1 AM. ETA: Ninja’d ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-crash-in-austin-need-a-cite/1022814/4 "2025-09-07T12:41:58Z")
Thank you. I appreciate the link. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-crash-in-austin-need-a-cite/1022814/5 "2025-09-07T12:58:14Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The dateline on your cite is Feb 19 2016 Oddly enough, the date is often omitted from journalist “datelines,” with the location being the more crucial part. “Dateline Berlin: Nazis win election,” for example. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-crash-in-austin-need-a-cite/1022814/6 "2025-09-07T12:59:42Z")
And, in my post, I forgot to include the year, thus definitively confirming _your_ point 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-crash-in-austin-need-a-cite/1022814/7 "2025-09-07T13:31:15Z")
What I really hate are modern news sites which put today’s date on each page they display. So when you do find genuinely old news, all evidence of when it really happened is lost. ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-crash-in-austin-need-a-cite/1022814/8 "2025-09-07T17:29:27Z")
Agreed, and it seems to be the predominant way of presenting news these days. It probably marginally boosts long tail readership at the expense of making news websites less readable and less informative. @Paul_was_in_Saudi , can you tell us how this article came to your attention and why you thought it was current? I’m curious because you are doing your due diligence as a consumer of news to become better informed about what you are reading. Most people don’t go that far so they will read an article about some inflammatory news, like let’s say crime rates in New York. Then, their various algorithms will feed them more outdated “news” about crime in New York, which further feeds their distorted world view that crime rates in big cities are exploding. All of a sudden, militarized occupation of big cities over there looks more and more reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-crash-in-austin-need-a-cite/1022814/9 "2025-09-07T20:06:36Z")
I do various searches on various sites. Sometimes I get lucky. In this case, the only mention I found of this case was the film clip I posted. Further, there was no narration. Not a lick of good information. The Internet promises us everything will be remembered. That just not true. In the modern age, just as in the paper age, even major events are sometimes misplaced. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-crash-in-austin-need-a-cite/1022814/10 "2025-09-07T20:11:42Z")
I never took the adage the Internet is forever to be literal — more like treat anything you post with the assumption that it will last forever, just in case. Of course stuff gets misfiled and disappears. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-crash-in-austin-need-a-cite/1022814/11 "2025-09-11T21:44:26Z")
> [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](#): > > The Internet promises us everything will be remembered. Remembered but not necessarily dated correctly. 😉