{"id":197740,"date":"2026-03-10T04:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197740\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T04:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:20:28","slug":"driver-of-corvette-dies-after-crash-on-interstate-37-near-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197740\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver of Corvette dies after crash on Interstate 37 near downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The driver of a Chevrolet Corvette was killed early Monday after crashing on Interstate 37 near downtown San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The crash was reported at around 2 a.m. on the southbound lanes of I-37 near Carolina Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">San Antonio police said a 21-year-old man was driving the Corvette when he lost control, went through a guardrail and went down a hill onto the access road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The vehicle eventually stopped at the guardrail on the access road, SAPD said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Bexar County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office identified him as Mathew Xavier Galvan. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A passenger was treated at the scene for minor injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The southbound mainlanes were closed due to the crash, but they have since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">No other vehicles were involved in the crash, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Drivers are urged to use caution on Monday morning due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/weather\/2026\/03\/09\/dense-fog-this-morning-storm-return-tuesday-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/weather\/2026\/03\/09\/dense-fog-this-morning-storm-return-tuesday-night\/\">dense fog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">For more information on traffic, you can click here to view our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/traffic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">traffic page<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/ksat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KSAT.com<\/a>. To view more on the current weather conditions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Click the links below for current road closures.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The driver of a Chevrolet Corvette was killed early Monday after crashing on Interstate 37&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[993,96,15479,82,84,83,272],"class_list":["post-197740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-downtown","tag-east-side","tag-interstate-37","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}