Automobile Accidents

• San Antonio Hit and Run Driver Injures Little Girl

  Shannon Weidemann | May 20, 2007 1:49 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  Two cars suspected of drag racing down Southwest Military struck a third car, injuring a 4-year-old girl and her mother. Police were able to apprehend one of the drivers that caused the car accident, but the other car drove away. There was a lot of debris all over the street, including children's toys. A four-year-old little girl was thrown from the car. She was taken by helicopter to...

• Car Driving Wrong Way in San Antonio Crashes

  Shannon Weidemann | May 13, 2007 6:33 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  A woman drove down the San Antonio Highway the wrong way on May 12th and caused a car accident. Both the driver and her passenger were killed. The accident happened during the early hours of the morning. Police say the car was traveling westbound in the east bound lanes of Highway 90. The driver of a pick-up truck tried to avoid that car, but was unable to. The vehicles collided. The police...

• Biker Awarded $17.7 million

  Beth Janicek | May 02, 2007 8:40 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  A Taiwanese shipping firm must pay $17.7 million to Joyson Mallabo, a motorcyclist who was severely injured when the wife of the company's president struck him with a company car. Wen-Ting Tai turned a Wan Hai Lines Company car into the motorcycle's path just four days after she made at least 16 mistakes and flunked the California driving test. Mallabo suffered massive injuries and must use a...

• Car Accident on Texas 46 Kills San Antonio Man

  Shannon Weidemann | April 25, 2007 3:00 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  A man driving on Texas 46 was killed on Tuesday night when he was hit by another vehicle. The 24-year-old man was traveling east near Boerne. The victim was from San Antonio. The victim was driving eastbound on Texas 46 northwest of San Antonio in a 1999 Honda when he swerved into the westbound lane, possibly because of slick road conditions, a dispatcher with the Kerr County Department of...

• Texans Get $31.8 Million Verdict in Fatal Wreck

  Beth Janicek | April 23, 2007 10:41 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  Jurors ruled that Allied Van Lines should pay $31.8 million to a group of Texans. The moving van slammed into traffic that was stopped due to a minor traffic accident throwing an SUV into the air, catching fire, killing two people and seriously burning two others. Lisa Guerra and her friend Joe Alfaro were awarded 70 percent of the money for medical expenses, lost earning capacity,...

• San Antonio Pedestrian Killed by Hit and Run Driver

  Shannon Weidemann | April 19, 2007 2:46 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  A man in is 20s was walking in San Antonio when he was hit by a car and then fell from a freeway exit ramp. He was killed and the car that struck him did not stop and left the scene. The accident happened around the intersection of Fernando Guerra and S. Pecos La Trinadad.Detectives believe the victim may have been walking on the Frio exit on southbound Interstate 35 when the man was struck by...

• San Antonio Woman Killed in Car Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | April 16, 2007 2:18 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  A car was driven off the road on Loop 1604 and then flipped in the center median. The 25-year-old driver of the car was not wearing a seatbelt and was thrown from the car. She was then hit by another car. The victim was driving a Honda Accord west on North Loop 1604 at a high rate of speed, according to witnesses quoted in a police report. Somehow the car drove off the roadway and flipped...

• Ford Recalls Police Vehicles

  Beth Janicek | March 14, 2007 4:50 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  Next week Ford Motor Co. will begin recalling as many as 109,664 police cars due to cracks developing in their steel wheels that could cause rapid tire air loss during high-speed pursuits. The recall affects 2003 - 2005 Crown Victoria models but the cracks have only been reported in a small percentage of wheels. Ford spokesman, Dan Jarvis, said police departments have only reported two crashes...

• Child injured in parking brake accident

  Staff Writer | March 12, 2007 10:05 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  The sad story of a parking break accident in San Antonio yesterday that injured a young child serves as a wake-up call to parents. The accident occurred while a father was loading his three children into his pickup truck yesterday. The police say that while he was buckling one child in, his two-year-old boy ran to the other side of the car and somehow released the parking brake of the standard...

• San Antonio Family Files a Wrongful Death Suit Against Ford Motor Company

  Beth Janicek | March 07, 2007 10:37 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  Al Gavegan's family has filed suit against Ford Motor Company due to a defective switch in the engine of his 1994 Mercury Marquis. Mr. Gavegan was killed in August 2006 in a fire that was started from the defective switch and spread to the house. The fire incident reports state the fire began in the engine compartment of Mr. Gavegan's car. A Ford representative said they received a claim...