A driver attempting to pass a large truck on Loop 410 near Callaghan Road rolled the vehicle several times early Tuesday morning, ending up hospitalized with minor injuries and under investigation for driving while intoxicated. The crash happened around 12:57 a.m. on the Northwest Side freeway, one of San Antonio's busiest commercial corridors.
According to an SAPD report relayed by KENS 5, the driver clipped the truck's trailer while trying to pass it, sending the car into a series of rolls before it came to rest. Police took the driver into custody for observation and began the DWI investigation while the driver was treated at a hospital, per the same report. KABB also confirmed that the man was hospitalized and that police are investigating the rollover on the Northwest Side.
If the investigation leads to charges, a first-offense DWI in Texas is typically a Class B misdemeanor carrying 72 hours to 180 days in jail and a fine up to $2,000, according to Deandra Grant Law. That penalty escalates to a Class A misdemeanor with up to a year in jail if the driver's blood alcohol concentration is found to be 0.15 or higher, the firm notes.
A Stretch of Freeway With a Grim History
The Loop 410 and Callaghan Road interchange has seen severe crashes before. Hoodline previously reported that a 58-year-old motorcyclist died on the same stretch of Loop 410 in June after losing control during a lane change, on a segment city traffic officials have designated part of San Antonio's High Injury Network.
The area's dangerous track record goes back further still. In October 2015, two women were killed at the same Loop 410 and Callaghan Road interchange when their car drifted off the highway and struck a barrier, requiring emergency crews to use heavy machinery for extrication, as reported by MySA.
Rollovers and Trucks Among San Antonio's Deadliest Crash Patterns
Tuesday's crash touches on two of the most persistent hazards on San Antonio roads: rollovers and collisions involving commercial trucks. A 2026 analysis of multi-year TxDOT crash data identified rollover collisions, alongside T-bone and head-on wrecks, as the three primary crash types causing fatalities and severe injuries on San Antonio roadways, according to ThatCarHitMe.com.
Bexar County also logged 2,684 commercial vehicle collisions in 2024, the third-highest total in Texas, resulting in 18 deaths and 34 suspected serious injuries, per TxDOT data cited by J.A. Davis & Associates. Loop 410 functions as a primary commercial shipping route through the region, which puts passenger vehicles in regular proximity to large trucks and trailers like the one involved in Tuesday's crash.
Bexar County's Broader Crash Numbers
The overnight rollover adds to a troubling countywide tally. TxDOT crash data shows Bexar County recorded 48,522 motor vehicle collisions in 2024, ranking second among all 254 Texas counties behind Harris County, according to figures reported by accident-lawyers-corpus-christi.com. That same year, the county logged 205 fatal crashes resulting in 215 deaths, along with 773 collisions that caused suspected serious injuries, per ThatCarHitMe.com.
Statewide, Texas recorded 4,150 traffic fatalities in 2024, roughly one road death every two hours, according to the same ThatCarHitMe.com analysis. The Northwest Side freeway network has also drawn separate scrutiny this year: the San Antonio Police Department indefinitely suspended an officer in May after vehicle logs showed him driving up to 117 mph on Northwest Loop 410 and 108 mph while responding to a crash on the same loop, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
No further details on the driver's identity or the results of the DWI investigation have been released. Whether formal charges will be filed remains an open question pending chemical test results, and police have not indicated a timeline for concluding the case.
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