SAN ANTONIO – A 27-year-old woman riding a scooter was critically injured after being struck by a vehicle along the northbound access road of Loop 1604, San Antonio police said.<\/p>\n
Around 7:40 p.m. on Monday, first responders were called to the scene of a reported collision involving a pedestrian near the corner of Loop 1606 and Potranco.<\/p>\n
Sergeant Ra\u00fal Cardenas said a motorist was traveling northbound \u201con the axis of 1604, just north of Petrenko, about maybe a half mile north of Petrenko\u201d when the driver, who was in the right lane, struck \u201ca female, a young lady about 27 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said investigators are still working to determine exactly how the crash happened, including whether the woman was in the street or roadway or on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re still trying to determine how this happened,\u201d Cardenas said. \u201cIf she was on the street or the roadway, or she was on the sidewalk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cardenas said the woman was taken to University Hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n
The driver remained at the scene and called police, Cardenas said. \u201cNo, he\u2019s still here. He remained. He called the police, so we\u2019re talking to him right now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Cardenas said evidence personnel were processing the scene and traffic investigators were looking into the crash. He said it remains under investigation and it was not immediately clear whether any criminal act occurred.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s still under investigation,\u201d Cardenas said. \u201cWe\u2019re not sure if anything criminal happened in this in this tragic event.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said the northbound access road was closed off near the crash site. \u201cIt\u2019s basically it\u2019s the northbound Access Road is closed off probably for about another hour,\u201d Cardenas said.<\/p>\n
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According to the San Antonio Fire Department, the collision occurred between a vehicle and possibly a person on a scooter. One person has been transported to the hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – A 27-year-old woman riding a scooter was critically injured after being struck by a vehicle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-471625","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\/471625","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=471625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}