Austin, TX : Odessan dies when car crashes into house on Tuesday, 16th August, 2016

An Odessa woman was killed after driving past a stop sign early Tuesday, plowing down a couple of steel posts and crashing into a single-story home.
Patsy A. Bridges, 56, was traveling alone in her 2003 Chevrolet Cavalier when she headed east on Dunn Street, Texas Department of Public Safety officials said, but failed to stop at the intersection of Dunn Street and Tripp Avenue.
DPS authorities said they don’t know how fast Bridges was going, but she apparently careened into a fence made up of steel posts in front of 386 N. Tripp Ave., uprooted them from the yard and smashed into the house.
Bridges’ car did not go through the home, but heavily dented it on the left side. The vehicle also left tire marks on the front yard and a portion of the windshield wrapped around one of the posts.
Bridges, who the DPS said wore her seat belt, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash which was reported at about 2:30 a.m. The investigation into the fatal crash is ongoing, and DPS authorities don’t have any other information, DPS Sgt. Oscar Villarreal said.
Any additional information would be available once an autopsy is done and a report is completed, Villarreal said.
A neighbor, Liz Garcia, and her husband Bobby Fuentes, both said that the crash into the North Tripp Avenue home was nothing new as a motorist crashed through the fence about a year ago. In addition, she said speeding motorists are a common occurrence, despite a number of complaints.
Garcia also said most motorists who pass through Tripp Avenue are often careless and known to drive past posted stop signs.
“People speed here at 90 mph,” she said. “It’s a bad, bad area.”
Fuentes said the local sheriff’s authorities don’t care about the speeding problems. Ector County Sheriff Mark Donaldson said that as much as he’d like to have sheriff’s deputies keep a watchful eye on all county roads it isn’t financially feasible.
Sheriff’s authorities follow up on potential public hazards any time they receive information, but having deputies around for every vehicular occurrence would present a challenge, Donaldson
explained.

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Odessan dies when car crashes into house