{"id":122177,"date":"2025-08-05T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122177\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:55:08","slug":"family-of-san-antonio-woman-killed-by-fiber-optic-line-files-wrongful-death-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122177\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of San Antonio woman killed by fiber optic line files wrongful death lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 The family of a San Antonio woman who died in May after being struck by a fiber optic cable in her own front yard filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday in state district court. <\/p>\n

Glenda Roth, 64, suffered significant head trauma on May 2 after a dumpster truck collided with the hanging wire, causing it to whip across the yard of her North Side home and strike her.<\/p>\n

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Roth was rushed to Brooke Army Medical Center, where she underwent emergency surgery and then remained in the intensive care unit for nearly two weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWalking in and seeing her laying there. She didn\u2019t look like my mom anymore,\u201d Roth\u2019s daughter, Caroline Weeks, told KSAT Investigates. \u201cShe was unrecognizable. The damage was so severe.\u201d <\/p>\n

Weeks said her family made the heart-wrenching decision to remove Roth from life support after doctors determined Roth\u2019s quality of life would be poor and would have likely remained in a vegetative state.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefinitely the hardest two weeks of our entire life,\u201d Weeks said. \u201cShe made life fun, and she had a way of making ordinary moments and ordinary days special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roth passed away on May 15. <\/p>\n

The Bexar County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office confirmed to KSAT that her cause of death was blunt force injuries to the head.<\/p>\n

Her husband, Bill Roth, described his late wife as the love of his life. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe was like that brightest star in the sky,\u201d said Bill Roth, who would have celebrated his 17th wedding anniversary with Glenda later this year. \u201cI prayed for her. I prayed that I would somehow meet her before I died, and sure enough, that\u2019s what happened.\u201d <\/p>\n

Wrongful death suit filed against three companies<\/p>\n

The suit names AT&T, its subcontractor Quest Utility Construction and dumpster rental company HaulBrooke as defendants and seeks more than $1 million in damages.<\/p>\n

AT&T and Quest installed the fiber optic line along Oak Ledge Drive well below the standard height requirements set out by the National Electrical Safety Code, the suit claims.<\/p>\n

Bill Roth, who said he was standing approximately 12 feet away from his wife when the cable snapped and whipped across the front yard, told KSAT he had raised concerns to AT&T about the height of the cable before the fatal incident.<\/p>\n

HaulBrooke, which was not involved in the installation of the cable, was included in the suit because attorneys for Roth\u2019s family said its driver was operating a dumpster truck in a negligent manner when it collided with the cable.<\/p>\n

The fiber optic cable was struck by a dumpster truck on Oak Ledge Drive May 2. (KSAT)<\/p>\n

The driver, who is also named in the suit and pictured at the scene of the crash, is accused of failing to keep a proper lookout for the cable, and did not take evasive action to avoid it or apply the brakes of the truck before the collision.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach of these companies has a part in either creating or ignoring the dangerous conditions that ultimately resulted in Glenda\u2019s passing,\u201d said Brennen Jenkins, from the Crosley Law Firm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jenkins encouraged anyone who sees low-hanging cables in their neighborhoods to reach out to the law firm.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to avoid another tragedy like this from ever happening to another family in our community,\u201d Jenkins said.<\/p>\n

KSAT Investigates contacted all three companies named in the suit to request comment.<\/p>\n

Officials with Quest Construction and HaulBrooke did not respond to our inquiries.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for AT&T responded that the inquiry was received and that the company would get back to KSAT as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

Read more reporting on the KSAT Investigates page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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