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UT LB Kindle suffers concussion when his car crashes into Austin apartment

APD investigating filing a charge of leaving scene of an accident

09:27 AM CDT on Tuesday, June 30, 2009

By KATE HAIROPOULOS / The Dallas Morning News
khairopoulos@dallasnews.com

Texas linebacker Sergio Kindle suffered a concussion when his car veered off the road and crashed into an Austin apartment complex around 2 a.m. Wednesday.

No charges have been filed by Austin Police. Kindle, who had a passenger in his car, was the only one injured in the incident.

Kindle, a former Woodrow Wilson standout, was texting when his car hit a curb, causing him to lose control of it, said Brian Roark, Kindle's attorney. The car crashed into an apartment in the Jefferson West complex on Rio Grande Street.

Kindle and others who had been following in the car behind him pushed Kindle's car out of the wall and left it on the street. Kindle went home and was treated for the concussion later Wednesday.

Roark said a representative for Kindle contacted the apartment's management company by 10:30 a.m. and that Kindle would cover the damages. Reports estimated the cost at more than $8,000.

Kindle, who had 10 sacks in 2008, was suspended for the first three games of the 2007 season after he was arrested for driving while intoxicated the previous July. Roark said Kindle does worry about the impression last week's accident could create.

"He did everything you could hope someone would do in that situation," Roark said. "I don't think he violated any criminal laws."

Cpl. Scott Perry said Monday the APD is investigating filing a charge of leaving the scene of an accident, a Class B misdemeanor, but said charges may not be filed. A note would have relieved Kindle of any wrongdoing, Perry said.

Roark said Kindle is only required to file a report with the Texas Department of Transportation because Kindle hit a stationary object and did not injure anyone else. Kindle planned to file the report as early as Monday, Roark said.

Perry said the APD had not spoken to Kindle.

One of the two tenants of the apartment told the Austin American-Statesman part of Kindle's car crashed into her bedroom, destroying several of her belongings and furniture. Neither tenant was at home at the time.

"She would have been dead if she had been sitting at her desk," Emily Dole, the roommate of the tenant whose bedroom wall was hit, told the Austin paper.

Roark said Monday he had been told the tenant had obtained a plaintiff lawyer, which he said "immediately raised red flags," since only property damage occurred. Roark said pictures of the accident showed the bulk of the damage was limited to the exterior of the building.

The tenant could not be reached for comment Monday.

"He was in an accident, and he's taken responsibility," said John Bianco, a UT athletic spokesman. "We're happy no one was seriously hurt."

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