Police identify woman killed after crashing into stalled 18-wheeler on I-35

By Katie Hall ; Posted Dec 11, 2019 at 2:18 PM, Updated Dec 11, 2019 at 2:33 PM

Police have identified a woman who died after investigators say she crashed on Saturday into the back of an 18-wheeler that had stalled on Interstate 35 in North Austin.

Allison Hollingshead Banks, 34, died from her injuries two days after the crash, which happened around 9:30 p.m. in the 9800 block of North Interstate 35, police said.

Anyone with information about this case should call the Austin police vehicular homicide unit at 512-974-4278.

Banks was the 80th person to die from an Austin crash this year, police said. At this time in 2018, 72 people had so far died on the city’s roads.