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Darcy Madsen was headed home from assignment about blitz hour on Aug. 16, traveling arctic on RM 620, back she absitively to stop at the ThunderCloud Subs on the larboard ancillary of the alley abreast the circle with RM 2222.
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Thundercloud Subs Menu, Menu for Thundercloud Subs, Manchaca ... | thundercloud subs near meAs she approached the intersection, she got into the average turn-only lane to about-face larboard into the driveway at the Hey Cupcake trailer, about 20 yards afore the ThunderCloud entrance.
"I about-face into that access and bend in to ThunderCloud," she said.
Then, a white Ford Escort aback appeared to Madsen's right. The Escort had larboard a Wells Fargo coffer driveway on the east ancillary of 620 and bare to cantankerous the two arctic lanes so the disciplinarian could about-face south on 620. The cartage cat-and-mouse at the red ablaze fabricated a amplitude for him to get through, Madsen said, and back the Escort entered the about-face lane, they collided.
Madsen's airbag deployed in her 2007 Chevrolet HHR. Her injuries were minor: a aching chest and sprained larboard wrist. The added disciplinarian was not hurt, according to the badge report. Madsen's car was accounted a absolute accident by her allowance company, she said, with anatomy and passenger-side damage.
Robert Eller, a agent constable for Travis County who came to the scene, did not adduce either driver. Sgt. Kent Shaffer, an investigator for the constable's office, afterwards begin that both drivers contributed to the bones — Madsen for behindhand a casual breadth and the added disciplinarian for abortion to crop the appropriate of way, said George Morales, arch agent constable.
For weeks, Madsen, 42, has been angry the allegation and wants the address amended.
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Thundercloud Subs - 13 Photos | thundercloud subs near me"If I accept to go to addition allowance company, it will aching me back they are attractive into my active history," she said.
And it's about principle. "It was not my fault," she said.
Madsen, a acquiescence coordinator for an oil and gas activity company, is agitated with the administration of the investigation. At the scene, she said, Eller kept cogent her that she bankrupt a law by actuality in the turn-only lane for added than 100 feet. However, back Shaffer accomplished the report, he begin Madsen at accountability for casual added cartage while she was in the turn-only lane. And Morales told Madsen in a Sept. 7 e-mail that "there is no 100-foot-law and it's not reflected in the badge report."
Travis County Precinct 2 Constable Adan Ballesteros — who oversees Morales, Shaffer and Eller — said Madsen erred by traveling too far in the turn-only lane and casual the cars on the right.
"She should accept gotten into the about-face lane aural 100 anxiety of her advised turn. And if cartage doesn't let you in, you don't get in," he said.
Madsen insists she entered the about-face lane appropriate abaft an SUV in advanced of Boat House Grill , which is two businesses abroad from her advised about-face at the cupcake trailer.
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Thundercloud Subs - 14 Photos | thundercloud subs near me"And, yes, I anesthetized chock-full cartage on my right. Those two lanes on my appropriate were chock-full because the ablaze was red at the 2222 circle up ahead. It aloof doesn't accomplish faculty that I couldn't canyon cartage on the right. Am I declared to delay until that cartage starts affective so I can continue? It doesn't accomplish sense," she said.
Once the SUV angry left, she accelerated. That's back she said the Escort came into her path.
"I never saw him because cartage blocked my view," she said.
Texas Department of Transportation agent John Aching explained the turn-only lane — appointed by two solid chicken curve on anniversary ancillary and alternate chicken stripes central the curve — and what it bureau to drivers.
"The larboard turn-only lane is for cartage in anniversary direction. It's not an added lane for traveling. It's actionable to drive in the turn-only lane for a continued way. It's carefully for axis traffic, and you can't use it as a absorb lane," he said.
Hurt said that drivers sometimes use the turn-only lane to bypass abundant cartage on the right. "Then, they try to absorb into the active lanes. That's illegal," he said.
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Thundercloud Subs Menu, Menu for Thundercloud Subs, Stone Oak ... | thundercloud subs near meAlthough a address can be revised by a badge bureau afterwards appointment it to TxDOT, Morales said the address is final.
"We will not change it," he said.
And back Madsen was not cited, she can't altercate her case in court.
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