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Summer Heat Tire Blowouts and Highway Wrecks in South Texas By late July, the pavement on Loop 1604 can feel hot enough to fry an egg. South Texas summers are brutal on people, and they're just as hard on tires. Heat builds inside a tire as it rolls, and when that tire is underinflated, worn or overloaded, the extra stress can push it past its limit. The result is a blowout at highway speed, and on a road packed with traffic, one blown tire can set off a chain of crashes. Blo

VIA Metro Bus Accident Claims in San Antonio Thousands of people in San Antonio ride VIA Metro buses every day. Students heading to the UTSA main campus, workers going to jobs at the South Texas Medical Center, and folks running errands along Fredericksburg Road all count on the bus to get them there safely. Most days it does. When it doesn't, the injured person is often left wondering who to call and whether they even have a claim. Bus accidents look different from ordinary

Drunk Driver Crash Claims in Bexar County In 2024, TxDOT data counted 39,805 crashes in San Antonio. Those wrecks took 170 lives and left 686 people with suspected serious injuries. Drunk driving is one of the causes that shows up again and again behind numbers like those, and it's one of the hardest to accept, because every one of those crashes was preventable. If a drunk driver hit you, there are really two cases in motion. The first is the criminal case, where the state pr

Motorcycle Accident Attorney Serving San Antonio and Bexar County "I never saw him." Riders across Bexar County hear that line more than any other after a crash. A driver turns left across Bandera Road near Loop 1604, or changes lanes on Culebra Road without a glance, and a motorcyclist who was doing everything right ends up on the pavement. Then the same driver who didn't look starts telling the insurance company the rider must have been going too fast. That blame shift matt

Distracted Driving Crashes and Texting Drivers in San Antonio Across Texas in 2024, there was a reportable crash about every 57 seconds, and not a single day passed without a traffic death. Some of those wrecks came down to speed or alcohol. Plenty came down to something smaller and more common. A driver looked at a phone. Maybe it was a text, a map, a song, San Antonio Car Accident Lawyer or a notification that could've waited. A few seconds with eyes off the road is all i

How to Get Your Texas Crash Report in San Antonio A few days after a wreck, most people realize they need something official that says what happened. That's the crash report. In Texas it's called the Texas Peace Officer's Crash Report, or CR-3, and it's often the first document an insurance company reads when it decides who was at fault. Start with the report number. When SAPD or the Bexar County Sheriff's Office responds to your crash, the officer should give you a card or s