A 41-year-old pedestrian was critically injured Thursday evening after a black SUV struck the person at Wurzbach and Evers roads on San Antonio’s Northwest Side and left the scene.
The crash happened around 6:30 p.m. at the intersection, and the driver took off without stopping to help, FOX San Antonio reported.
Emergency crews took the pedestrian to a nearby hospital in critical condition. As of Friday’s reports, police had not given a later update on that condition, and investigators had not identified or located the driver.
San Antonio’s 2024 Vision Zero Action Plan found that pedestrian fatalities rose 22% from 2019 through 2023, increasing from 37 deaths in 2019 to 45 in 2023. The city’s plan sets out strategies to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries; the trend underscores the broader safety challenge facing people traveling on foot across the city. The figures are from the city’s Vision Zero Action Plan.
The crash comes amid a substantial pedestrian-safety burden in the region. The City of San Antonio, citing TxDOT data, said the San Antonio area recorded 769 pedestrian-involved crashes in 2024, resulting in 83 deaths and 168 serious injuries. The figures cover the broader area, not just the Northwest Side or the intersection where this pedestrian was struck, the city said in its pedestrian-safety campaign announcement.
Texas law requires a driver involved in a crash that causes, or is reasonably likely to cause, injury or death to stop, check whether anyone needs aid and remain at the scene until the required information and assistance are provided. Those duties are set out in Sections 550.021 and 550.023 of the Texas Transportation Code.
