{"id":379261,"date":"2026-07-20T04:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379261\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T04:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:34:24","slug":"teenager-on-dirtbike-strikes-side-of-bus-rushed-to-hospital-in-critical-condition-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379261\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager on dirtbike strikes side of bus, rushed to hospital in critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A teenager has been hospitalized after allegedly colliding with a VIA bus while riding a dirtbike just east of Downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Around 4:50 p.m. on Sunday, police were called to the scene of a reported motor vehicle collision near the corner of Porter Street and South Palmetto Street. <\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary information from the San Antonio Fire Department, a teenage male patient, between 15 and 16 years old, riding an electric motorcycle\/dirtbike, struck the side of a VIA bus.<\/p>\n<p>Officers on the scene say that they believe the teen rode past a stop sign just before the collision, failing to stop.<\/p>\n<p>The bus driver is cooperating with the investigation at this time. We&#8217;ve reached out to VIA for a statement, but have yet to hear back. Nobody else was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The patient was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A teenager has been hospitalized after allegedly colliding with a VIA bus while riding a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-379261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379261","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=379261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}