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Police have identified a 26-year-old woman who died early Sunday after she was thrown from a motorcycle and struck by a car on North Lamar Boulevard as Angela Lynn Watson.
Austin police said the motorcycle Watson was riding on as a passenger was rounding a curve on North Lamar just north of 25th Street near the northernmost section of Pease District Park when she was thrown from the motorcycle. The accident happened shortly before 2:30 a.m., police said.
The driver of the car that struck her, a Pontiac Vibe, has not been charged, according to police. The man driving the motorcycle, who has not been identified, was critically injured and taken to University Medical Center at Brackenridge.
He has not been charged in connection with the accident, according to police spokesman Veneza Aguiñaga. Neither Watson nor the driver were wearing helmets at the time of the accident, Aguiñaga said.
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