{"id":259027,"date":"2025-09-27T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/259027\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:15:08","slug":"driver-dies-after-crash-on-hwy-281-near-loop-1604-medical-episode-suspected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/259027\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies after crash on Hwy 281 near Loop 1604; medical episode suspected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses told police it appeared the driver suffered a medical episode<\/p>\n<p>A driver was pronounced dead after crashing on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, on the Highway 281 access road near Loop 1604. Witnesses told police it appeared the driver suffered a medical episode. (KSAT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 A 53-year-old driver was pronounced dead after police say he may have suffered a medical episode and crashed on the North Side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A preliminary report from San Antonio police states the driver was traveling in a blue Volvo northbound on the Highway 281 access road near Loop 1604 when he lost control at around 9 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He struck traffic signs on a concrete island before coming to a stop in the middle of the intersection, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He was unresponsive and taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Witnesses told police it appeared the driver suffered a medical episode, causing the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The medical examiner\u2019s office will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>Read also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorRebecca Salinas headshot<a class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__LinkBase-sc-1fnzlkn-9 eUojqd gMnWPT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/RebeccaSalinas\/\" title=\"View Rebecca Salinas&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebecca Salinas<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 gnunoy bOlrXa\">Rebecca Salinas is the Digital Executive Producer at KSAT 12 News. A San Antonio native, Rebecca is an award-winning journalist who joined KSAT in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Witnesses told police it appeared the driver suffered a medical episode A driver was pronounced dead after crashing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":259028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,11628,7202,7203,7725,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-259027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-north-side","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-sanantonio","12":"tag-sapd","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115276921114987822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259027","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=259027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}