Killeen Police Identify Driver in Fatal Crash

Killeen, TX: (January 30, 2025): Investigators with the Traffic Unit have identified the driver as Veronica Denise Horne.

The Traffic Unit continues to investigate this fatality and there is no information available at this time.

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NEWS RELEASE: KILLEEN POLICE INVESTIGATE A SINGLE-CAR VEHICLE CRASH ON 38TH STREET

Killeen, TX: (January 29, 2025): One person is deceased after a single-car crash.

On January 29, 2025, at 2:58 a.m., officers were dispatched to the intersection of Veterans Memorial Blvd. (Bus 190) and 38th Street in reference to a single vehicle crash. Upon arrival, officers found a vehicle partially on fire, and witnesses performing first-aid on the female. Officers began life-saving measures until Killeen Fire Department paramedics arrived. She was transported to the Carl R. Darnall Medical Center in critical condition.

Preliminary investigation indicates that a white Kia sedan was traveling eastbound on Veterans Memorial Blvd. at high speed when it veered off the roadway, colliding with multiple utility poles near the 38th Street intersection.

The 49-year-old driver, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle, was pronounced deceased at 4:17 a.m. at the hospital by Justice of the Peace Gregory Johnson, who ordered an autopsy to be conducted at the Southwest Institute of Forensic Science in Dallas.

The name of the victim has been withheld pending notification of next of kin.

Investigators with the Traffic Unit continue to investigate this fatality and there is no information available at this time.

Ofelia Miramontez
Public Affairs
Killeen Police Department