Jose Rafael Molina Killed, Jatniel Alvarez Aviles, 1 Injured in Car Accident in Bastrop County, TX
UPDATE (February 13, 2023): Additional details from officials identified the man killed in the crash as 26-year-old Jose Rafael Molina. No further information about the crash can be confirmed at this time.
Bastrop County, TX -- December 31, 2022, one person was killed and Jatniel Alvrez Aviles and another person were injured in a car accident.
Officials said that the accident happened at around 10:39 p.m. along FM 969. It appears that 19-year-old Jatniel Alvarez Aviles was in a Toyota Camry traveling southbound along FM 969. From oncoming lanes, a Honda Civic reportedly went over the center line and hit the Camry head-on.

Due to the crash, a man in the Honda sustained fatal injuries. Aviles and a passenger in his vehicle were both injured. Right now, the exact cause of the crash cannot be confirmed.
Something that always concerns me with crashes over the holidays is they don't always get the attention they deserve. With journalists likely on vacation and authorities often left understaffed and overworked, even a deadly crash like this can slip through the cracks.
It's one of the reasons many crashes require secondary, more thorough investigations to ensure nothing went overlooked. Hopefully this wasn't one of those crashes and that authorities were thorough enough behind the scenes to get the victims and families involved here the answers they deserve.
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