Man killed in Southeast Austin crash

AUSTIN

2 lanes on U.S. 183 frontage to open

Two of the three closed frontage road lanes opposite the building damaged in the Feb. 18 plane crash should be open this morning, said John Hurt, spokesman for the Texas Department of Transportation. Hurt said the inner lane of U.S. 183's southbound frontage road will remain closed indefinitely.

The lanes are near the Echelon I office building that Andrew Joseph StackIII flew a private plane into, creating a gaping hole and causing fire damage. Officials have since determined that the building is structurally sound and can be repaired. But the Internal Revenue Service, which has auditing operations there, has been busy removing crucial records from the building.

Hurt said officials with the building and the IRS said that both repair and document operations can proceed with two of the lanes open. Keeping the inner lane closed will protect passing cars and will provide room for repair equipment, Hurt said.

There could be times in the coming months, he said, when all three lanes will have to be closed overnight for repair work on the building. But such closures, Hurt said, would begin no earlier than 8 p.m. and end by 5 a.m.

Man killed in Friday crash

A 50-year-old man was killed in a three-vehicle crash Friday evening in Southeast Austin, police said.

Christian Kosnosky died at University Medical Center Brackenridge, where he was taken after the 7 p.m. crash on Burleson Road.

Kosnosky was driving a 1989 Honda Civic south on Burleson when he was struck head-on by a Chevrolet Tahoe, police said. The Tahoe was trying to avoid a Chevrolet Impala that did not stop at a stop sign at Mission Hill Drive. The Impala hit the Tahoe, sending it across the center line and into the Civic.

The driver of the Tahoe and the driver of the Impala sustained minor injuries, police said.

Neither speed nor alcohol appear to be factors in the crash, police said. No charges have been filed, police said, but the crash is still under investigation.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 974-6981.

BELL COUNTY

Hasan bound for county jail

The Army psychiatrist charged in the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military base will soon be moved to a county jail near Fort Hood after four months in a military hospital, his attorney and jail officials said Monday.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who is paralyzed, is to be transferred to the Bell County Jail and will be housed in a cell in the medical unit, said jail administrator Bob Patterson.

"We're prepared to handle inmates with medical needs," Patterson said, declining to elaborate or comment on whether special security measures would be taken.

Hasan's attorney, John Galligan, said his clientcould be transferred this week.

Bell County Sheriff Dan Smith declined to discuss details about housing Hasan until he has been moved.

Hasan has been at a San Antonio military hospital since shortly after the Nov. 5 shootings. He is paralyzed from the chest down after being shot that day by two civilian members of Fort Hood's police force.

Doctors told him late last week that he had finished physical therapy and that he would be moved out of the hospital by helicopter, Galligan said.

He said he did not want Hasan in the Bell County Jail because it was not properly equipped to provide medical care for some of his previous clients, including a paralyzed woman.

Galligan said prosecutors rejected his request to move Hasan to Fort Hood's hospital or to an on-post house with security, two options that would ensure that his medical needs are met. Galligan said Hasan recently fell while trying to move from his wheelchair to a hospital bed, but a hospital staffer caught him.