SAN ANTONIO – A 17-year-old motorcyclist killed in a crash involving two pickup trucks Thursday morning was a student at Smithson Valley High School, Comal ISD confirmed.<\/p>\n
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers responded to the crash around 9 a.m. Sept. 3 on SH 46 near Stoney Creek. Investigators said a red Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle was traveling westbound when the rider failed to control his speed and traveled between a Ford pickup and a Chevrolet Silverado, striking both vehicles.<\/p>\n
The rider was ejected and came to rest in the westbound bar ditch, according to DPS. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
In a letter to the Smithson Valley High School community, the district said one of its students had died and extended its \u201cdeepest and heartfelt sympathy\u201d to the student\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
The district encouraged parents to support their children as they process the loss and said that counseling and student support staff are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – A 17-year-old motorcyclist killed in a crash involving two pickup trucks Thursday morning was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-427273","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\/427273","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=427273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}