Car accident guide and data hub for San Antonio

If you were just in a wreck here, you are not dealing with a rare event. Bexar County had 48,522 reported crashes in 2024, which comes out to roughly 133 a day.¹ This page collects the local crash numbers, the roads where the serious wrecks pile up, and the Texas rules that decide what happens with an injury claim. Every figure is tied to the agency or statute it came from, so you can check it yourself.

San Antonio and Bexar County by the numbers

The Texas Department of Transportation is the source of record. In 2024, Bexar County recorded 205 fatal crashes, 215 traffic deaths, and 773 crashes that left at least one person with a suspected serious injury.¹ Inside the city of San Antonio, drivers reported 39,805 crashes, 162 of them fatal, with 170 people killed.² The city makes up most of the county's total, which is about what you would expect given where people drive and park.

One caveat on every figure here: TxDOT counts only reportable crashes, meaning a crash with an injury, a death, or at least $1,000 in property damage, so the true number of minor collisions runs higher.³

These local numbers sit inside a hard statewide year. Texas lost 4,150 people on its roads in 2024, down a little from 4,291 in 2023, and not one day passed without a death.⁴ TxDOT measures the pace bluntly: one person killed every 2 hours and 7 minutes, one reportable crash every 57 seconds.⁴ Alcohol was involved in 1,053 of those deaths, about a quarter of the total, and 1,050 people died in crashes at or tied to intersections.⁴ That intersection figure matters locally, because San Antonio's worst crash spots are surface-street corridors, not the freeways.

Where the serious crashes cluster

Fatal and serious wrecks are not spread evenly across the city. In December 2025 the city's Transportation Department published a High-Injury Network Dashboard that maps where the severe crashes concentrate, built on TxDOT crash records from 2018 through 2022.⁵ By that data, Culebra Road carried the most, with 116 fatal or serious-injury crashes, followed by Bandera Road with 38, Roosevelt Avenue with 37, Southeast Military Drive with 34, and Southwest Military Drive with 31.⁵ Every one of those is a busy arterial, not an interstate like I-35 or Loop 410 that carries the region's heaviest volume. The dashboard gives residents and council members block-level numbers instead of a citywide average, which is how corridors like these get moved up the list for signals, lighting, and safer crossings.

The city has been working this problem under its Vision Zero program. Three corridors sit at the center of the current push: Zarzamora Street, Fredericksburg Road, and W.W. White Road. The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded San Antonio a $4.4 million Safe Streets for All grant to pay for improvements along Zarzamora and outreach on ten high-injury corridors.⁶ People on foot carry an outsized share of the harm. Statewide, 768 pedestrians and 585 motorcyclists were killed in 2024, and the campaign along those three streets is aimed at protecting the most exposed road users.⁴⁶

How to get your crash report

If San Antonio police worked your crash, the officer files a Texas Peace Officer's Crash Report, form CR-3, with the state. A report is required whenever a crash causes an injury, a death, or at least $1,000 in property damage, and officers have until the tenth day after the crash to submit it.³ Once it is in the system, you can buy a copy through TxDOT's Crash Records Information System purchase portal for $6, or $8 for a certified copy.⁷ You search by date, name, and location. Get this report early. It holds the officer's diagram, the other driver's insurance information, and any citations, and every insurer will read it before you do.

Texas rules that shape a claim

A handful of state laws do most of the work in deciding what a claim is worth.

Texas is an at-fault state, so the driver who caused the wreck, through their insurance, pays for the damage. Every driver has to carry liability coverage of at least $30,000 for injuries to one person, $60,000 per crash, and $25,000 for property damage, the limits the Texas Department of Insurance shortens to 30/60/25.⁸ Those are floor amounts, and they run dry fast in a serious injury crash, which is the argument for buying uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage before you ever need it.

Blame is rarely all on one side. Texas uses proportionate responsibility, so your recovery drops by your share of the fault, and under Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 33.001 you recover nothing at all if you are found more than 50 percent responsible.⁹ That 51 percent bar is why the other insurer works to shift fault onto you, and why what you say at the scene and to an adjuster carries weight.

There is also a deadline. Under Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 16.003, you generally have two years from the date of the crash to file a personal injury lawsuit in Texas.¹⁰ Let it lapse and the court will throw the case out, however strong it was. Two years feels long until months of treatment and insurance back-and-forth have quietly used it up.

What to do next

If you can manage it at the scene, the order is simple. Call 911 and get medical care, photograph the vehicles and the road, collect the other driver's insurance and plate, and write down anyone who saw what happened. See a doctor even if you feel fine, because some injuries surface days later and a gap in treatment hands the insurer an argument. When you are ready to look at your options, you can compare attorneys in the legal directory.

This is general information, not legal advice.

Sources

1. Texas Department of Transportation, 2024 Crash Facts, Crashes and Injuries by County. https://www.txdot.gov/content/dam/docs/division/trf/crash-records/2024/13.pdf

2. Texas Department of Transportation, 2024 Crash Facts, Crashes and Injuries, Cities and Towns. https://www.txdot.gov/content/dam/docs/division/trf/crash-records/2024/14.pdf

3. Texas Department of Transportation, Crash reports and records. https://www.txdot.gov/data-maps/crash-reports-records.html

4. Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Motor Vehicle Traffic Crash Facts, Calendar Year 2024. https://www.txdot.gov/content/dam/docs/division/trf/crash-records/2024/01.pdf

5. KSAT, "New public dashboard highlights San Antonio's most fatal, severe crash hotspots," December 4, 2025. https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2025/12/04/new-public-dashboard-highlights-san-antonios-most-fatal-severe-crash-hotspots/

6. San Antonio Report, "San Antonio targets 3 high-risk deadly corridors for new pedestrian safety campaign." https://sanantonioreport.org/san-antonio-targets-3-high-risk-deadly-corridors-for-new-pedestrian-safety-campaign/

7. Texas Department of Transportation, Crash Report Online Purchase System (CRIS). https://cris.txdot.gov/public/Purchase

8. Texas Department of Insurance, Auto insurance guide. https://www.tdi.texas.gov/pubs/consumer/cb020.html

9. Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 33.001. https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.33.htm

10. Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 16.003. https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.16.htm