KYLE, Texas — A second Kyle Police Department officer has died from injuries suffered in a single-vehicle rollover crash in Comal County, the department announced on Thursday, November 12, raising the death toll from the early-Sunday crash on Farm-to-Market Road 1102 to three people.

Source: KTSA News

Officer Austin Brennan died from his injuries, Kyle police said on Thursday. This is a follow-up development to the November 8 crash, in which Kyle Sergeant Anthony Guzman and passenger Skylar Brianna Arroyo were killed at the scene — the crash Awaaz Punjab first reported on November 8. Brennan had been among the injured taken to hospital after the crash and did not survive his injuries.

In its statement, the department said Brennan “saved nine lives through organ donation” after his death. Whether Brennan was driving the truck or riding as a passenger had not been confirmed as of Thursday evening, according to the department's announcement as reported by KTSA and KSAT.

What happened on FM 1102

The crash happened on Sunday, November 8, on FM 1102, just south of Winding Way in Comal County, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). DPS said a white Ford F-250 was travelling north shortly before 1 a.m. when it veered off the right side of the road; the driver overcorrected, and the truck overturned, ejecting two passengers.

Sergeant Anthony “Tigre” Guzman, 34, of New Braunfels, and Skylar Brianna Arroyo, 28, also of New Braunfels, were pronounced dead at the scene. Three other people in the truck were injured and taken to medical facilities, and Brennan was among those hospitalised before he died on Thursday.

Who Austin Brennan was

Brennan had served with the Kyle Police Department for four years. “During his four years with the Kyle Police Department, Officer Brennan was formally recognized by many community members for his professionalism and compassion,” the department said in its statement, as reported by KSAT.

Guzman, the first officer whose death was announced, was a 10-year veteran of the department who had risen to sergeant and had earned multiple Life-Saving and Meritorious Conduct awards and other commendations, the department said earlier. He leaves behind an 8-year-old daughter, and a community support fund was set up for his family in the days after the crash.

A small department hit twice in one crash

Three of the Kyle department's off-duty officers were in the truck, which means one crash has now cost the department two of its own and injured a third colleague. Kyle is a fast-growing city in Hays County on the Interstate 35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio — a corridor our trucker readers know well — and its police department serves a community that has been among the fastest-growing in Texas.

What happens next

The Texas Department of Public Safety is continuing its investigation, and the cause of the crash has not been determined, officials said. No findings on why the truck left the road have been announced. Funeral and memorial arrangements for Officer Brennan had not been announced in the reports published by Thursday night, and the department is expected to release further details as the investigation and family arrangements proceed. Anyone with information about the crash can contact the Texas Department of Public Safety.