{"id":159861,"date":"2025-08-20T01:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159861\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T01:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:35:08","slug":"mes-office-identifies-second-driver-killed-in-high-speed-crash-on-southwest-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159861\/","title":{"rendered":"ME\u2019s office identifies second driver killed in high-speed crash on Southwest Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 The second driver killed over the weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/08\/17\/two-dead-after-high-speed-crash-near-interstate-35-on-southwest-side-sapd-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/08\/17\/two-dead-after-high-speed-crash-near-interstate-35-on-southwest-side-sapd-says\/\">in a high-speed crash<\/a> on the Southwest Side has been identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The crash happened around 4:30 p.m. Sunday in the 12000 block of Fischer Road, just east of Interstate 35. San Antonio police said two people were killed after being involved in the \u201chigh-speed\u201d collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On Tuesday, the Bexar County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office identified one of the other drivers as Hilda Rivera Hernandez, 28. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Hernandez died of blunt force injuries, the medical examiner\u2019s office said. The death was ruled an accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On Monday, the medical examiner\u2019s office identified the other driver as Richard Garcia, 45. Garcia also died of blunt force injuries, and his death was ruled an accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to San Antonio police, a man in a black Ford Mustang sports car was driving west at a high-rate of speed toward I-35 and lost control, police said, before crashing into a silver Ford Fusion sedan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Police said the driver of the Mustang likely lost control due to the high speed at which he was driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Hernandez and Garcia both died at the scene before emergency services could help them out of the cars, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">As of Tuesday night, police have not identified Garcia as the driver of the Mustang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">There was one passenger in each vehicle, police said, and both were taken to local hospitals with major injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The department said there is no criminal element to the case, but it is subject to change. The investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>Read also:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The second driver killed over the weekend in a high-speed crash on the Southwest Side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,4903,27745,7202,7203,7120,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-159861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crash","10":"tag-interstate-35","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-sanantonio","13":"tag-southwest-side","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115058528990901571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159861","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=159861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}