{"id":413910,"date":"2026-08-22T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413910\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:34:08","slug":"sun-glare-blamed-after-driver-hits-man-in-a-wheelchair-near-brackenridge-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413910\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun glare blamed after driver hits man in a wheelchair near Brackenridge Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A man in a wheelchair was struck by a vehicle while using a crosswalk Friday evening on the city\u2019s Near North Side.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 4:50 p.m. in the 3900 block of North Saint Mary\u2019s Street, near San Antonio Zoo train depot and Brackenridge Park.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio police said the 32-year-old man was crossing the street in a designated crosswalk when a northbound driver hit him.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old driver told officers glare from the sun obstructed his view, preventing him from seeing the pedestrian in time.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian suffered minor, non-life-threatening injuries. Both the driver and the pedestrian remained at the scene following the collision, and an investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A man in a wheelchair was struck by a vehicle while using a crosswalk Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-413910","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\/413910","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=413910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}