waller texas accident

Vanisri, Meghana & Nikhila Killed in Texas Crash

Wife and daughters of TANA Board Director Nagendra Srinivas Kodali were killed in an accident in Waller, TX on Sunday, September 25th at Kickapoo and FM 2920. Vanisri Yalamanchili and Meghana Kodali were killed at the spot. Nikhila Kodali died at Memorial Hermann Hospital.

As per Rebecca Carballo, Houston Chronicle:

Bellaire resident Vanisri Yalamanchili was reportedly bringing her daughter home from Texas A&M University to celebrate an Indian holiday when their car was T-boned in Waller County Sunday.

Yalamanchili, 53, and Meghana Kodali, 20, were killed on impact. The younger daughter, a 16-year-old Bellaire High School student, was take by Life Flight to Memorial Hermann Hospital, where she died.

The family was driving home to celebrate Dasara, a major Hindu festival, according to the India Herald. The father of the girls, Nagendra Kodali, is an anesthesiologist at Texas Children’s Hospital and an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Baylor College of Medicine. He is also chairman of the Teluga Association of North America.

The two sisters were both skilled classical Indian dancers and held a major dance performance together in 2018.

The fatal accident happened just after 11 a.m. Sunday at Kickapoo and FM 2920. Yalamanchili was driving south on Kickapoo in Lexus when she allegedly failed to stop at a blinking red light, according to the Montgomery County Police Reporter.

A 2022 Chevrolet Silverado traveling east on FM 2920 struck the car at “highway speeds.”

DPS investigated the crash.

News & image source >> Bellaire mother, two daughters killed in Waller crash on their drive home from Texas A&M

allen us-75 accident

1 killed in Tractor-Trailer Crash on US-75 in Allen

A motor vehicle accident closed Westbound Stacy Road at approximately 3 p.m. Tuesday, as a truck lay overturned under US-75 at Stacy Road.

Accident closes Westbound Stacy Road at US-75 in Allen

According to a bystander on the scene, the vehicle, “flew off 75 and hit the ground.”

Police officers and emergency services are on the scene to put out the fire and control traffic. More information to come as available.

Commuters can expect delays in all directions for the remainder of the evening and into tonight. Drivers are encouraged to seek alternate routes. the East Service Road from Cabela’s Drive to Stacy Rd will be shutdown.

The Allen Police Department announced that one person has tragically died as a result of the crash that occurred on US-75 at the Stacy Road overpass.

Officers were called at 2:57 p.m. to a major crash in the 2000 block of northbound US-75. When they arrived, officers found a tractor trailer on the east service road engulfed in flames.

“It appears the tractor trailer was northbound on US-75 and collided with another vehicle,” the department said in a press release. “After the collision, the tractor trailer drove over the right side of the overpass, crashed on the service road below, and burst into flames. The driver of the other vehicle was not injured.

The name of the victim has not yet been released.

The Allen Police Department is asking the community for cooperation while investigating the scene.

Anyone who witnessed this crash or has any information regarding it is asked to contact the Allen Police Department Traffic Unit at 214.509.4288.

News source>> Accident closes Westbound Stacy Road at US-75 in Allen