{"id":480446,"date":"2026-10-29T15:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480446\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T15:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:24:12","slug":"man-killed-after-car-crushes-him-during-a-vehicle-repair-on-the-west-side-sapd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480446\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed after car crushes him during a vehicle repair on the West Side, SAPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers responded in the 1400 block of West Kings Highway around 9 p.m. Wednesday<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\"  loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LCLCZDOKYRAIBOQKOFWV7N5F7Y.jpg\"\/>Generic SAPD police car (Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A man is dead after a car fell on him while he was doing vehicle repairs Wednesday night on the West Side, according to San Antonio police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Officers responded around 9 p.m. in the 1400 block of West Kings Highway for an apparent sudden death call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">When they arrived, officers learned a man in his 30s was doing vehicle repairs when a floor jack that was holding up the car gave out, and crushed him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Officers would pronounce the man dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">At this time, he has not been identified. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">READ ALSO:<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ilkOIf copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorRocky Garza headshot<img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793287452_722_73747df1-cd3a-4453-adf2-ffd187f2e32e.png\"\/><a class=\"sc-bmzYkS fERtCt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/KLKY0MQWH1HX57EN7N24HIQUH6\/\" title=\"View Rocky Garza&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky Garza<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ctDavV cigBRW\">Rocky Garza Jr. is a Content Gatherer at KSAT-12 News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers responded in the 1400 block of West Kings Highway around 9 p.m. Wednesday Generic SAPD police car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83,632,2098],"class_list":["post-480446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-sapd","tag-west-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480446","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=480446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}