A man in his 40s was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries Friday morning after he may have been ejected from his vehicle in a crash on San Antonio's Northwest Side. Police said another driver, a man in his 20s, was not hurt, and the cause of the crash remains unclear.
According to News4SanAntonio, the crash happened just before 8:30 a.m. at the intersection of Culebra Road and Grissom Pass. Investigators believed the man may have been ejected, and he was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
A possible ejection is a serious injury marker, but police have not said whether the man was wearing a seat belt. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says a seat belt helps keep occupants inside a vehicle and that ejection is often deadly; in 2024, 48% of passenger-vehicle occupants killed in crashes who had known restraint status were unbelted. Those national figures offer context, not an explanation of what happened in this crash. NHTSA’s seat-belt data and safety guidance.
Police have not said what caused the crash, only that the circumstances remain unclear as the investigation continues. SAPD has also not released the identity of the hospitalized man, the hospital where he was taken, or any update on his condition.
A Stretch of Road With a Troubled History
Friday's crash adds to a grim pattern along Culebra Road, which the same KSAT report notes has seen more than 110 fatal and serious-injury crashes over the five years leading up to December 2025, according to TxDOT data cited by the outlet. San Antonio officials have said the corridor's mix of heavy traffic, frequent driveways and pedestrians helped land it on the city's list of “high-injury” streets, per that same KSAT reporting.
San Antonio has made crash data available through a High-Injury Network dashboard, launched by the city’s Transportation Department in December 2025. The tool lets residents explore where fatal and serious-injury crashes occur and how they affect people driving, walking and biking. The city describes the network as a small share of streets where a disproportionate share of severe injuries and deaths take place, providing a broader framework for understanding why individual corridors draw safety concerns. The city’s dashboard announcement.
Just days before that report published, a man died and two others were hospitalized in a fiery crash at Culebra and Ingram roads, the station noted. And in April 2023, a juvenile died after being ejected from a vehicle in an overnight crash in the 7200 block of Culebra Road, according to an earlier KSAT report.
A separate federal grant is supporting planning and design for safety and multimodal changes on about five miles of Culebra Road, between Loop 410 and General McMullen Drive. The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded San Antonio $8 million for work that includes planning for ADA-accessible sidewalks and crossings, bicycle facilities, transit stops, traffic calming and other street improvements. The grant covers a defined segment of the broader Culebra corridor; it does not establish that construction is underway at the crash site. The federal grant description.
Nearby Intersection Has Its Own Dangerous Reputation
The Grissom and Old Grissom intersection, close to Friday's crash site, has its own troubled record. News4SanAntonio has reported that a separate multi-vehicle crash there left one person dead and another hospitalized, after SAPD said a vehicle turning left from Old Grissom Road onto Grissom Road was struck by another vehicle. That report also cited at least one other fatal crash at the intersection in May 2023.
In response to the danger at that intersection, funding for a traffic light at Grissom and Old Grissom was approved in 2024, and construction had begun by the time News4SanAntonio's report was published, with city officials saying the signal could be completed as soon as April 2025.
Online, reaction to major crashes on Grissom Road has included complaints about speeding drivers. One Reddit commenter in a thread discussing a heavy police presence on Grissom Road wrote that “seeing cars driving 10 to 20+ miles over the speed limit on Grissom is an everyday occurrence,” though it was not confirmed that the discussion referred to Friday's specific crash.
