Police ID 2 women killed in car crashes

Austin police have identified two women who died in separate car crashes this month.

Mary Arevalo, 50, died May 1 following a multiple car collision in East Austin, police said.

According to a preliminary investigation, Arevalo collided around 9 a.m. with a Subaru Outback that had stopped in the roadway at the 300 block of Airport Boulevard because of a road hazard, police said.

Arevalo, who was traveling northbound in a Ford Mustang, swerved and hit the side of the Subaru, police said. She then struck a Hyundai Elantra, which in turn struck a fourth vehicle, police said.

Arevalo was taken to University Medical Center Brackenridge, where she was pronounced dead.

The driver of the Subaru was issued a citation for impeding traffic.

Police also identified a woman who died Monday in North Austin as 35-yearold Jazmin Amaya.

At 9 a.m., Amaya was waiting at a traffic light on southbound Lamar Boulevard, at the intersection with Parmer Lane, police said. Amaya, who was driving a Volvo S70, proceeded when the light turned green, but was struck on the driver’s side by a Hyundai Sonata traveling west- bound on Parmer Lane that ran the red light, according to police’s preliminary investigation.

Amaya was pronounced dead at the scene. A 4-year-old child traveling in the back of Amaya’s vehicle was taken to Dell Children’s Hospital.

Police ask anyone with information about either case to call their vehicular homicide unit at 512-9745789.