{"id":334114,"date":"2025-10-26T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/334114\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:32:13","slug":"death-of-john-jay-hs-student-prompts-city-review-of-safety-on-marbach-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/334114\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of John Jay HS student prompts city review of safety on Marbach Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 After the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/13\/john-jay-hs-student-dies-a-month-after-being-hit-by-vehicle-in-front-of-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/13\/john-jay-hs-student-dies-a-month-after-being-hit-by-vehicle-in-front-of-campus\/\">tragic death of a John Jay High School student<\/a>, city leaders said they\u2019re now taking a closer look at safety along Marbach Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jose Flores III, 16, died two weeks ago after spending more than a month in the hospital. He was a junior at John Jay on the West Side. In September, he was hit by a truck in a crosswalk on Marbach Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">After his death, KSAT spoke exclusively with his parents, Jose Flores II and Amanda Saucedo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cHe was very caring and goofy,\u201d Saucedo said. \u201cNo family should have to go through this.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">They said they think the stretch of Marbach Road outside John Jay isn\u2019t safe. Amber Valensuela, who drives by the high school every day, said she agrees. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI don\u2019t want any more children to get hit,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t want anybody to get hurt out here.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The city is now responding to these concerns. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cHaving grown up on that side of town, I know how fast folks can go down Marbach,\u201d Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jones confirmed the Public Works Department will review the safety of Marbach Road in front of the high school, but a timeline is not yet known. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>More coverage of this story on KSAT.com:<\/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\"\/><\/ul>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 After the tragic death of a John Jay High School student, city leaders said they\u2019re&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":334115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,4903,127909,107405,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-334114","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-john-jay-high-school","11":"tag-marbach-road","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-sanantonio","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\/115441195016963032","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334114","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=334114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}