SAN ANTONIO – A 28-year-old man was hospitalized in critical condition after a motorcycle crash on San Antonio\u2019s East Side, according to San Antonio police.<\/p>\n
Sgt. Gross with the San Antonio Police Department\u2019s East Patrol said the initial report indicates the man was riding a motorcycle \u201cat an unsafe speed\u201d while trying to switch lanes, possibly to pass a semi that \u201cmight have been making a turn.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said the motorcyclist ended up in the path of an oncoming driver, and a crash occurred that sent the motorcycle to the other side of the roadway. Sgt. Gross said the rider suffered \u201csevere lacerations to the arm,\u201d along with \u201cunknown injuries\u201d internally and \u201cpossible head trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was taken to SAMC Hospital in \u201cstable but critical condition,\u201d Gross said, and was still listed in critical condition while receiving treatment.<\/p>\n
The crash damaged an SUV and the motorcycle, police said. Gross identified the rider as a \u201c28-year-old\u201d male and said he was believed to be Hispanic.<\/p>\n
The driver of the SUV stayed at the scene and was speaking with detectives, Gross said. Police said there were \u201cno other signs of intoxication at this time,\u201d but the crash remained under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – A 28-year-old man was hospitalized in critical condition after a motorcycle crash on San Antonio\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-429171","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\/429171","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=429171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}