SUGAR LAND, Texas — For more than two years, Teresa Yeager says she could drive past the crosswalk in her New Territory neighborhood, but she couldn't bring herself to walk it.

That changed this week, after the driver who hit and killed her husband, Don Yeager, pleaded guilty under a Texas law created to protect people in crosswalks.

"I want to know what my husband was thinking when he crossed this crosswalk that he crossed almost every day," Teresa said, standing at the intersection where he was struck. "It's still very hard. I drive it all the time, but I've never been able to walk it. And so today was the first time."

Don Yeager, 60, was killed on Sept. 22, 2023, while walking the couple's dog across New Territory Boulevard at Heatherton Way, near their home in the New Territory subd

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