Two separate crashes on the West Side and South Side overnight Friday left two men dead in San Antonio.<\/p>\n
At around 8:30 p.m. Friday, a driver was going north in the southbound lanes of the 5200 block of Roosevelt Avenue near Loop 410. When he started to approach another driver heading south, they both tried to switch lanes to avoid each other. But they ended up crashing into each other head-on.<\/p>\n
The man driving the wrong way, 63-year-old Luis Martinez, died at a hospital several hours later, according to a preliminary San Antonio police report.<\/p>\n
He showed signs of being under the influence when police evaluated him at the scene, according to the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nearly five hours later, another fatal accident happened on the West Side.<\/p>\n
At around 1:20 a.m., a motorcyclist was trying to turn left onto Southwest 24th Street from West Commerce Street. The driver of a Ford pickup truck heading east on Commerce had a green light, police said. When the motorcyclist was trying to turn, the driver struck him.<\/p>\n
Hector Hernandez, 67, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
The driver cooperated with investigators and didn\u2019t appear to be under the influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two separate crashes on the West Side and South Side overnight Friday left two men dead in San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-395881","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\/395881","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=395881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}