A man was hospitalized in critical condition Saturday evening after being struck by a pickup truck near North General McMullen and Culebra Road on San Antonio's West Side. The crash happened around 6:40 p.m., and police on scene said they had received a call reporting that the man had jumped in front of the truck before he was hit.
According to KABB, the driver of the pickup stayed at the scene after the collision. The man was rushed to a local hospital in San Antonio, and as of Saturday night, the investigation into the crash remained ongoing.
A West Side Intersection With a History
This is not the first time this stretch of road has seen a pedestrian critically hurt. Back in December, a man was critically injured after being struck by a vehicle late at night at the very same intersection of Culebra Road and North General McMullen, according to News 4 San Antonio. In that earlier case, police said the man was struck while crossing the roadway around 11:42 p.m. and was rushed to University Hospital in critical condition.
Pedestrian crashes have also struck elsewhere on the West Side this year. In May, a pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries in the 600 block of South Zarzamora Street near Guadalupe Street, per KSAT, citing the San Antonio Police Department. Police said that crash happened just before 9 p.m. as a male pedestrian was crossing a marked crosswalk from east to west when an unknown vehicle traveling northbound struck him.
City's Vision Zero Push Continues
San Antonio has been working to curb these kinds of crashes since adopting its Vision Zero road-safety framework in 2016, a plan aimed at reducing traffic deaths and serious injuries citywide, the San Antonio Express-News reports. The city's Transportation Department has also rolled out a campaign called Keep Crossings SAfe, designed to encourage drivers to watch for pedestrians in crosswalks and remind pedestrians to use marked crossings themselves.
That effort grew out of the city's identification of a high-injury street network, built using Texas Department of Transportation crash data collected between 2018 and 2022 to pinpoint roadways where severe crashes cluster, according to the same Express-News analysis. The campaign initially targeted three corridors and is expected to eventually expand to seven additional roadways flagged for high numbers of fatal and serious crashes.
Statewide, the scale of the problem remains significant: Texas recorded 698 fatal crashes involving a pedestrian in 2025, per the Texas Department of Transportation. Saturday's crash near General McMullen and Culebra adds to a string of serious pedestrian injuries that have put renewed attention on that West Side corridor, though the circumstances behind this latest incident are still under investigation.
