Since 2016, nearly 1,000 drivers and passengers have been in involved in 345 car accidents along FM 1626, according to data from the Texas Department of Transportation.

FM 1626 stretches through the land west of I-35 from Manchaca to north Kyle, and sections of the road have been under construction for improvements since 2012.

The number of car wrecks that occur on the road is one reason the county moved forward with the improvements in the first place, Hays County Commissioner Mark Jones said.

&ld...