Eleven injured – two critically – as vehicle crashes into Austin food truck 

Eleven people have been injured – two of them critically – after a car crashed into a food truck in Austin, Texas on Friday night.

The incident took place shortly after 8pm at 1800 Barton Springs Rd, Austin’s EMS said.

They confirmed that nine people were taken to hospital – two with potentially life-threatening injuries, and seven with less severe injuries. 

The crash, near Butler Metro Park, happened after two vehicles collided, the emergency services agency said. 

Eyewitnesses told KVUE that a a white pick-up truck was speeding and hit a turning sedan, with the sedan spinning off the road and hitting the Holla Mode food truck. 

The white pick-up then careened onto the sidewalk, into a nearby bicycle rack.

Mike Marut, a reporter with KVUE, tweeted: ‘Talking to a Chuy’s employee and manager who ran outside right after it happened, they tell me they saw people trapped under the silver car. 

‘Deaf and hard of hearing people were outside, didn’t hear the crash, and were hit. Manager described one with a severe leg injury.’ 

A spokesman for Austin police told DailyMail.com they were unable to confirm that some of the injured were deaf.  

A witness told KVUE that he saw a white pick-up truck speeding westbound, traveling about 85 miles per hour – well above the speed limit.

He said the collision with the sedan sounded ‘like an explosion, like a bomb.’  

Photos shared on social media showed dazed customers sitting on benches outside the food truck.

The white pick-up appeared to have crashed into some bicycles – a Metro Bike docking station was next to the Holla Mode food truck.