A 10-year-old Boldt Elementary School student was struck by a car while crossing Hollimon Parkway and Reeves Loop on the way to class, and now parents in the Northside Independent School District neighborhood are demanding the intersection finally get real safety upgrades. Since the collision, one volunteer has been showing up before sunrise with his own vest and stop signs to do a job no one is paying him to do.
The student was hit on Oct. 20 while crossing at Hollimon Parkway and Reeves Loop, according to KSAT. The boy's mother, Nadia White, said her son told her he had stopped before crossing, while the woman driving the car said she had also stopped — and the two of them ended up proceeding at the same time, resulting in the collision, White said. White said her son is okay but now has anxiety near intersections, and she has started walking him to school herself since the crash.
White said ensuring children's safety at the crossing should not fall solely on the shoulders of one volunteer. That volunteer is Anthony Curtis, who has been going to the intersection before school begins every morning to act as an unofficial crossing guard, using a vest and stop signs he purchased himself. He is not paid for the work, and he said he has had to dodge drivers himself many times while trying to keep kids out of traffic.
A Volunteer Standing Between Kids and Traffic
Another parent, Cynthia, said Curtis has tried to hold children back to keep cars from hitting them, but that some drivers simply do not care and keep going anyway. Parent Jennifer Phillips said she has watched the danger play out over the past week alone, reporting a child was hit the previous week, that an ambulance responded, and that a near miss happened again the very morning she spoke to KSAT. Phillips said Curtis is usually the reason more children have not been hit at the crossing.
Parents told KSAT that near misses happen frequently at the intersection, not just in isolated incidents. One parent said they now walk across the street to pick up their own children from school despite living directly across from campus, simply because the intersection feels too dangerous to let kids cross alone.
Who's Responsible for Fixing the Crossing
Parents want Bexar County or the local homeowners association to step in with lights, a traffic signal or a flashing crosswalk sign, according to the station's report. Bexar County Public Works is now looking into the intersection, since Hollimon Parkway and Reeves Loop is not school-district property — meaning Northside ISD cannot unilaterally install new traffic controls there itself. A Bexar County Commissioners Court agenda item from June 18, 2013, shows the county previously moved to establish a one-way stop control at that same intersection, per records posted by Bexar County.
In an emailed statement, Northside ISD said no neighborhood is completely free of risk and that it is essential for both drivers and walkers to keep their attention on the road, the same account notes. White said what she wants most is simply for lights or some other safety measure to be added before anyone gets hurt worse than her son was.
A Pattern Playing Out Across the San Antonio Area
The Boldt Elementary crossing is not an isolated complaint. Frustrated residents across San Antonio and Bexar County have been sounding off about drivers disregarding children's safety as neighborhoods grow, according to MySA. Near Silos Elementary School in Medina Valley ISD, residents reported drivers speeding, passing on the shoulder and ignoring a crosswalk, while local volunteers there have also taken it upon themselves to guard the crossing. One area resident, Mark Erbe, argued officials should not wait until a child, a crossing guard or a motorist is seriously injured before making engineering changes to dangerous intersections.
San Antonio separately sought nearly $1 million in 2025 for its School Zone Pedestrian Safety Program, funding that would maintain more than 200 existing flashing school-zone signs, install at least 14 new ones and upgrade over 200 more, according to News 4 San Antonio. The plan could also add radar detection signs that flash drivers' speeds back at them near high-traffic school zones. Nearby in Williamson County, commissioners approved a study of school crosswalk safety in unincorporated areas at their Oct. 27 meeting, after Judge Steve Snell said two students were hit by cars while using school crosswalks last spring, Community Impact reported; that review will cover roads near roughly 35 schools and is expected to wrap up by summer 2027.
For now, the fix at Hollimon Parkway and Reeves Loop still rests on Curtis showing up before the bell rings. Boldt Elementary parents say they appreciate him for keeping their kids safer than the intersection itself does, even as they wait to see whether Bexar County Public Works or the homeowners association follows through with lights, a signal or a flashing sign.
