High speed chase san antonio today

According to reporting from KENS 5 Eyewitness News, a serious car accident occurred following a police chase within the city of San Antonio. Apparently, the police chase actually started as a case of misidentification by the officers. San Antonio Police reported that they spotted a vehicle speeding near downtown. The officers thought that the speeding vehicle was in fact a vehicle that they had been searching for, in relation to a separate incident. For currently unreported reasons, the speeding vehicle refused to comply when officers attempted to pull the vehicle over. Unfortunately, the chase led to a high speed accident which sent three people to the hospital. This was a highly reckless act by the driver. If you have been injured by a reckless driver, you should to speak to an experienced San Antonio car wreck attorney today.

Texas Reckless Driving Accidents

Reckless driving is a common cause of a Texas car accident injuries. Under Texas law, reckless driving is the willful disregard of the safety of other persons, or the willful disregard towards the preservation of property. This definition is necessarily broad, and that can make some reckless driving accident injury cases complicated. It is clear that Texas drivers have a legal obligation to refrain from driving in a manner that obviously disregards the safety of others on the road. Sometimes you may not be sure if the other driver actually behaved recklessly. Typical forms of reckless driving to watch out for include:

• Driving above the speed limit;
• Driving too fast for the weather or highway conditions;
• Erratic, ill timed or dangerous lane changes;
• Passing in a forbidden manner;
• Driving through stop signs, red lights, or not yielding properly;
• Not signaling;
• or, following too closely.

Essentially, failure to follow Texas traffic regulations, standard driving conventions, or driving in an unusually risky manner can all qualified as reckless driving. Not every case will be as clear cut as the previously mentioned downtown police chase accident. But, you deserve to be fully and fairly compensation for any injuries that have been caused by a reckless driver. An experienced San Antonio car accident lawyer can help make that happen. Driving can be dangerous and we owe it to each other to drive safely. We have all seen drivers who speed, who fail to signal, who weave in and out of traffic on the highway or who perform many other reckless maneuvers. These maneuvers are risky and they frequently lead to serious accidents. Reckless drivers must be held legally accountable for these negligent acts.

Contact An Experienced Car Crash Attorney

All San Antonio drivers have a legal responsibility to drive safely. Reckless driving is negligent driving, and reckless driving accident victims deserve full and fair compensation for their injuries. Refusing to pull over for city police officers and leading them on a high speed chase is an unusually clear case of reckless driving. Most cases are not quite so clear, and the professional services of an experienced San Antonio car accident attorney become critically important. Do not put your legal rights at risk. If you have been injured by a reckless driver, contact the Law Offices of Ronald A. Ramos today to learn about your legal options.

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Officer, juvenile vehicle robbery suspect crash during pursuit on Southwest Side, San Antonio police say

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio police say an officer and a suspect are in the hospital after a pursuit led to a crash on the Southwest Side. According to police, a juvenile female suspect stole a black truck from another juvenile female who suffered a broken leg when trying to get her vehicle back from the suspect. The suspect in the vehicle did not stop, and a supervisor authorized the officer to pursue the truck, police said. The pursuit ended at Old Pearsall Road and West Military when the suspect crashed into an officer headed down the opposite way of traffic, according to police. Police say the South Patrol officer is a 2-year veteran of the department.

Man crashes stolen vehicle in Bexar County after leading Guadalupe County deputies on pursuit

BEXAR COUNTY, Texas – Guadalupe County Sheriff’s Office patrol officials say they arrested a man and three people were sent to the hospital after a pursuit that ended in a crash in Bexar County. Deputies say they received a call for a stolen vehicle from a gas station in Guadalupe County. Officials say the man inside the stolen Ford F-250 led the deputies on a pursuit to Bexar County. The man in the truck crashed into three vehicles near the area of I-10 East and Loop 1604 in northeast Bexar County, officials said. Deputies say the man faces charges for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle or theft of a motor vehicle, evading arrest-motor vehicle, reckless driving, and five counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.