{"id":1005643,"date":"2026-08-17T02:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1005643\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T02:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:34:18","slug":"medical-episode-triggered-chain-reaction-crash-on-us-281-that-ejected-2-girls-sapd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1005643\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical episode triggered chain-reaction crash on US 281 that ejected 2 girls, SAPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 A medical episode behind the wheel led to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/15\/2-children-ejected-in-us-281-crash-that-closed-northbound-lanes-for-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">chain-reaction crash<\/a> on U.S. Highway 281 near Bitters Road on Saturday afternoon, according to San Antonio police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Surveillance video from a nearby business captured the moment a Toyota Highlander driver lost control on the access road, struck a TxDOT sign and crossed into the northbound lanes of the highway. The SUV then hit a Dodge Ram, which struck a Chevrolet Suburban before rolling several times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Mark Wolfe, manager at SA Card House, said a customer first alerted him to the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">\u201cWe watched the SUV come back down the hill and go into this parking lot where it basically parked,\u201d Wolfe said, \u201cand we didn\u2019t know what happened after that because we were more worried about the victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Two girls, an 11-year-old and a 15-year-old, were ejected from the Dodge Ram and sustained serious injuries. The Dodge Ram\u2019s driver suffered non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">\u201cIt was very unfortunate. It was very saddening and sad to see,\u201d Wolfe said. \u201cA lot of us thought maybe a medical emergency or something happened. Somehow they lost control of their vehicle, and they were forced to go up there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">SAPD confirmed the driver who initiated the crash was cooperating with investigators. The driver\u2019s condition remains unknown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">As of Sunday, no criminal charges had been filed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><b>Read more:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 etvbxt font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Stack-vJ7SwH7U__StackBase-sc-1m5bkhd-0 evEXvX dsnUCb\"\/><\/ul>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A medical episode behind the wheel led to a chain-reaction crash on U.S. Highway 281&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1005644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,4903,11628,7202,7203,7725,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,229812],"class_list":["post-1005643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-crash","tag-north-side","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-sapd","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-we-follow-through"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117108517438503400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}