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Study: failure-to-yield left turns drive crashes at FM 2499/Live Oak; council asks for more data and a $42,000 timing study
Summary
A staff-commissioned traffic study found 41 crashes from 2020–2025 at FM 2499 and Live Oak Marketplace, with failure-to-yield left turns the most common contributing factor; council requested updated crash counts and asked staff to pursue signal-timing coordination work with TxDOT.
City staff presented a traffic engineering study of the signalized FM 2499 and Live Oak Marketplace intersection during the Feb. 10 meeting, reporting 41 crashes from 2020–2025 and recommending a suite of short- and mid-term countermeasures.
The consultant and staff said the most common contributing factor in the data was failure to yield on left-turn movements, especially northbound lefts onto Live Oak, followed by driver inattention and…
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