A pedestrian was struck by a car on San Antonio's South Side Monday evening and rushed to the hospital as a Priority 1 patient, according to the San Antonio Fire Department. Emergency crews responded to the 6700 block of South Flores Street near Southeast Military Drive, where the person was hit before being taken for emergency treatment.
Details remain limited in the hours after the crash. As reported by KENS 5, the person was rushed to the hospital after being hit by a car in the area, with SAFD confirming the Priority 1 classification, a designation that usually means the patient is in critical condition and may have life-threatening injuries.
The outlet's report was still developing as of Monday night, with more information expected to be added as it becomes available. No details have yet been released about the person's identity, age or specific injuries, nor has information emerged about the driver involved or whether any citations have been issued.
A Corridor With a Troubled Safety Record
Southeast Military Drive has drawn scrutiny before. In August 2025, a man identified by his family as Noah Patterson was hospitalized after being hit while crossing the same corridor, an incident that, per FOX San Antonio, was described as the second pedestrian struck while crossing Southeast Military Drive that same week.
Just days earlier, Jeanette Espitia and her unborn child were killed crossing Southeast Military Drive near Old Corpus Christi Road, according to the same report. The cluster of incidents along that stretch fueled frustration among South Side residents over pedestrian safety on the busy road.
Other crashes have surfaced elsewhere along the city's Military Drive corridors. A September 2026 report described a man being hit by a vehicle after leaving a convenience store on Southwest Military Drive, according to a separate KENS 5 account, underscoring that pedestrian strikes along these roads have not been limited to one stretch or one month.
City's Broader Vision Zero Effort
San Antonio adopted a citywide road-safety framework called Vision Zero in 2016, formally committing to reducing traffic deaths and serious injuries, according to the San Antonio Express-News. The city's so-called high-injury network was built using Texas Department of Transportation crash data spanning 2018 through 2022, the Express-News reports.
The city's Transportation Department has also launched a public-awareness campaign called Keep Crossings SAfe aimed at encouraging safer behavior from both drivers and pedestrians, per the Express-News analysis, which mapped a decade of Texas Department of Transportation pedestrian-involved crash data across the eight-county San Antonio metro region. The City of San Antonio also maintains a Vision Zero Crash Map that allows residents to view pedestrian crash locations, vehicle crash data and areas flagged for severe pedestrian injuries.
This remains a developing story, and no further details about Monday's crash on South Flores Street have been confirmed.
