Authorities are searching for three people who fled the scene of a fatal single-vehicle rollover wreck along FM 2001 just outside of Buda early Sunday.
The incident happened around 3 a.m. Feb. 24 in the 3100 block of FM 2001 near Windy Hill Road, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) spokesperson. When authorities arrived, they found Maria Elena Rosales Mendez, 27, of Buda, dead at the scene. Hays County Justice of the Peace Scott Cary pronounced Rosales Mendez dead and ordered an autopsy.
According to a DPS accident report, a 2005 Ford Mustang was traveling south on FM 2001 at a high rate of speed when it left the roadway and entered into a skid.
The vehicle then hit a pole and a tree before coming to rest facing east approximately 10 feet north of FM 2001. According to witnesses, the driver of the vehicle and two other passengers fled the scene on foot before EMS officials arrived. Mendez was a passenger in the back seat.
A description of the driver and the two other passengers who fled the scene is unknown.
DPS officials are investigating the incident. Anyone with information on this wreck is asked to contact DPS at 800-252-8477.
