Nov 12, 2024
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A woman wanted in connection with a southeast Austin crash into a food truck that injured multiple pedestrians was arrested last week, the Austin Police Department told KXAN Tuesday. Regina Rodela, 38, was arrested on Nov. 7 and was charged with three counts of aggravated assault -- a second-degree felony. She was booked into the Travis County Correctional Complex on a $225,000 bond, where she remained as of Tuesday, according to APD. APD looking for woman accused of crashing vehicle into 4 pedestrians, food truck KXAN reached out to Rodela's attorney for a response to the charges. We will update this story if one is received. On Oct. 22, APD, the Austin Fire Department and Austin-Travis County EMS responded to the 2500 block of Elmont Drive in southeast Austin for a report of a vehicle that hit four pedestrians and then a food truck, which caused it to catch fire. ATCEMS and the Austin Fire Department responded to a crash involving multiple pedestrians and a food truck that caught on fire in southeast Austin. (Sarah Al-Shaikh/KXAN News)ATCEMS and the Austin Fire Department responded to a crash involving multiple pedestrians and a food truck that caught on fire in southeast Austin. (Courtesy AFD)ATCEMS and the Austin Fire Department responded to a crash involving multiple pedestrians and a food truck that caught on fire in southeast Austin. (Courtesy AFD)ATCEMS and the Austin Fire Department responded to a crash involving multiple pedestrians and a food truck that caught on fire in southeast Austin. (Sarah Al-Shaikh/KXAN News)ATCEMS and the Austin Fire Department responded to a crash involving multiple pedestrians and a food truck that caught on fire in southeast Austin. (Sarah Al-Shaikh/KXAN News)ATCEMS and the Austin Fire Department responded to a crash involving multiple pedestrians and a food truck that caught on fire in southeast Austin. (Sarah Al-Shaikh/KXAN News) Around 4:21 p.m. that day, officers responded to a call in the same area. The woman, later identified as Rodela, told police her phone was stolen. However, police were not able to find a suspect or the phone she said was stolen, police said in the release. Officers then left the area around 5:02 p.m. Then, around 5:14 p.m., officers responded to a crash hotshot call at the same location and “found multiple victims who appeared to have been struck by a vehicle. Additionally, a food truck was on fire,” police said in a news release. Rodela left the scene and failed to stop and render aid, according to police.
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