Two McKinney residents killed in fatal crash at Custer Road intersection

Two McKinney residents, Sandra Lee Lazarus and William Lavich Lazarus, both 77, died Friday evening when a Hyundai and a BMW collided at Custer Road and Bedford Road. McKinney police said officers responded to the fatal crash just before 6:30 p.m., and the investigation remained active and ongoing.

The collision drew a heavy emergency response and left several people hurt. FOX 4 described the wreck as fiery and said two people were killed and four were injured. WFAA reported the victims were McKinney residents and said the crash happened at Custer Road and Bedford Road, while CBS News Texas identified the couple and said both died at the scene.

The other vehicle’s occupants were taken to a hospital and were expected to be okay, according to a transcript snippet from WFAA. The reports do not give a full account of how the Hyundai and BMW struck each other, but they make clear that the crash was severe enough to turn a busy McKinney intersection into a fatal scene in seconds.

The location puts the deaths in one of Collin County’s most heavily traveled growth corridors. Custer Road carries steady north-south traffic through McKinney, where neighborhood streets, commuter flow and development pressures increasingly share the same pavement. That mix has made intersections like Custer and Bedford important to drivers who rely on the road daily to move across the city.

For families in McKinney, the crash is a stark reminder of how quickly a familiar intersection can become dangerous. With the police investigation still open, the fatal wreck now stands as another painful marker of the traffic strain that comes with rapid growth in northern Collin County.