SAN ANTONIO – A man was critically injured early Friday after his car struck the back of an 18-wheeler and rolled off the highway on the city’s Southwest Side.
The crash happened shortly after 3 a.m. along Interstate 35 near the Poteet Jourdanton Freeway.
Police said the man had been driving at a high rate of speed when he crashed into the rear of the tractor-trailer.
The force of the impact sent the car off the roadway, leaving the engine in the median. Firefighters pulled the driver from the wreckage before he was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The investigation is ongoing.