Austin Car & Truck Accident Lawyer

Austin’s two main highways don’t carry the same risk. I-35 runs straight through downtown carrying heavy 18-wheeler and commuter traffic together, and it’s one of the most crash-prone corridors in the state — Austin logs somewhere around 11,000 to 12,000 reportable crashes a year, with a disproportionate share of the serious and fatal ones on I-35 itself. MoPac, the parallel route on the west side of downtown, carries far less commercial truck traffic and sees comparatively fewer total collisions, even though it’s just as congested at rush hour. If you were hurt on either one, the León Law Firm handles the claim on a contingency-fee basis — you owe no attorney’s fee and no case expenses unless we recover money for you.

When an Austin-area crash is serious, there’s only one place equipped to treat it. Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas is the only adult Level I trauma center across the entire 11-county Central Texas region — it replaced the former Brackenridge trauma center when that facility closed in 2017. If your case involved a transfer to Dell Seton, that record is often central to establishing how serious your injuries were, regardless of which county you actually live in.

Austin’s traffic problem looks different from every other city on our list. This isn’t a port city, a border city, or an oilfield town — Austin’s crash volume is a function of how fast the region has grown. Tesla’s Gigafactory alone employs roughly 20,000 workers, Samsung’s semiconductor investment and Apple’s expanding campus are adding thousands more jobs, and the roads simply haven’t kept pace with that growth. That means our Austin cases are more often about ordinary commuter congestion turning dangerous on an overloaded I-35, not industrial or freight-specific exposure.

Civil claims here are filed in Travis County, at the Travis County District Courts inside the Civil and Family Courts Facility on Guadalupe Street downtown. We build every Austin case with that court’s procedures in mind from the first call.

For nearly 30 years, attorney Carlos A. León has proudly served injury victims across Texas, and our team works with clients in English and Spanish — hablamos español. If you were hurt in an Austin-area crash, call (281) 980-4529 for a free consultation. There is no fee and no expense owed unless we recover money for you.