Faulty parts in a vehicle can cause catastrophic accidents.
According to a KSAT News report, a child suffered a serious laceration injury in an accident caused by faulty brakes on Saturday, August 12, 2023.
Chemical spills on highways can affect motorists, houses, and businesses near the accident site.
According to a KSAT News report, an 18-wheeler lost containers of chemicals on I-10, causing two vehicles to collide and the highway to be temporarily closed on June 21, 2023.
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According to a KSAT News report, a late-night crash left a wrong-way driver in critical condition after hitting the curb and rolling their vehicle.
Auto accidents are a leading cause of death for children in the United States.
According to a KSAT News report, a man was arrested after injuring a man and two children with his vehicle after running a red light on the Southwest Side of San Antonio.
What do you do if you are injured as a passenger in an auto accident?
According to a News 4 San Antonio report, a 23-year-old woman was abandoned after being injured in a motorcycle accident on the Far West Side of San Antonio.
Who is at fault in a multi-vehicle accident in Texas?
A 3-car pile-up left a girl in critical condition on the far West Side of San Antonio on Saturday, June 3, 2023, according to a San Antonio Express-News report. According to the report, the accident happened on the 9200 block of Potranco Road at around 10:30 p.m. A vehicle was making a lane change when it cut in front of another vehicle that was also attempting a lane change. Those two vehicles collided with one another, and the vehicle in the back was struck by another vehicle from behind as a result. The accident resulted in only one reported injury, a girl whose age is unknown, and she was transported to a local hospital in critical condition after being freed from the mangled vehicle by firefighters.
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A woman identified as forty-two-year-old Corina Huerta was killed in a pedestrian accident while walking to her car, according to a San Antonio Express-News report. The woman was walking to her car in a downtown parking lot on Brooklyn Avenue and Dallas Street when she was pinned between two vehicles on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. The driver stopped at attempted to help the woman, who later died of her injuries at the hospital. According to the report, the police determined the driver was not intoxicated at the time of the crash.
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A 22-year-old man is dead after being hit head-on by a wrong-way driver at around 1 a.m. on May 30, 2023, according to a San Antonio Express-News report. The 39-year-old wrong-way driver was arrested and charged with intoxicated manslaughter, as well as two counts of driving while intoxicated with a child under 15, and two counts of injury to a child causing bodily injury-reckless, as he had two children in the pickup with him at the time. All of them were transported to the hospital with minor injuries after the crash, and the 22-year-old died of his injuries at the hospital.
High-speed accidents almost always end in serious injuries.
According to a Click 2 Houston news report, a 26-year-old woman is dead, and four children are in critical condition after losing control of her vehicle at around 11:30 p.m. on May 22, 2023, on I-45 in La Marque. Galveston police reported that the woman was speeding on I-45 when she struck the wall and flipped multiple times before falling off the bridge and onto the roadway below. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, and the four children, 3 and 6 years old, are in the hospital in critical condition. It is unclear if the children were properly buckled or in car seats at the time of the crash.
San Antonio is not a very cyclist-friendly city.
San Antonio police are looking for a driver that hit and killed a cyclist and then fled the scene, according to a San Antonio Express-News report. The accident occurred early Friday morning, just before 2 a.m. when drivers on the 3500 block of Roland Avenue reported a mangled bicycle with a man next to it on the side of the road. According to the police report, a driver failed to navigate a turn at a curve in the road and clipped the cyclist, driving off without stopping to assist him. The unidentified man was pronounced dead at the scene.
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