When officers first arrived, they believed a pedestrian had been struck before the crash after finding an electric scooter and blood near the scene.
SAN ANTONIO — Two people were transported to the hospital after a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 35 Monday evening, according to a preliminary report by the San Antonio Police Department.
Police were called to the 1500 block I-35 N around 8 p.m. on July 27 for a major accident involving five vehicles.
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According to the report, four vehicles were stopped at a red light when a fifth vehicle crashed into the back of the line, triggering a chain-reaction collision. The impact pushed each vehicle into the one in front of it.
When officers first arrived, they believed a pedestrian had been struck before the crash after finding an electric scooter and blood near the scene. However, investigators later determined no pedestrian had been hit.
Police said the blood belonged to the driver of the vehicle that caused the crash. The driver told officers he jumped out of the moving vehicle before it slammed into the stopped cars. That driver and one other person involved in the crash were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
SAPD said this crash remains under investigation.