San Antonio Crash Statistics and Trends

San Antonio drivers already know the roads that make them tense up: Loop 410 merging into Highway 151, the Culebra Road stretch through the West Side, the I-35 corridor hauling freight up from Laredo. The data backs up the instinct. Bexar County logged 48,522 reported crashes in 2024, the second-highest total of any county in Texas behind only Harris County's 115,173, and ahead of Dallas County's 46,257.¹ That works out to roughly 133 crashes somewhere in the county every day of the year.¹

Most of those wrecks were fender-benders. TxDOT's county-level crash file for 2024 counts 31,863 as non-injury crashes, but 773 involved a suspected serious injury, and 205 were fatal, killing 215 people on Bexar County roads that year.¹ Those numbers cover the whole county, not just the city. San Antonio's own tracking, TxDOT's highway data, and the city's Vision Zero program each tell a different slice of the same story.

What the city is watching

San Antonio adopted Vision Zero in 2015, the first Texas city to do so, and passed a formal Action Plan in September 2024, also a first for the state.² The goal is zero traffic deaths. The city isn't there yet. By mid-November 2025, San Antonio had recorded more than 133 fatal crashes and 141 deaths for the year, including 54 pedestrians and 4 bicyclists, a toll the city marked with a public remembrance event tied to World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.³

In December 2025 the city's Transportation Department launched a $1.2 million High-Injury Network Dashboard built on TxDOT crash data from 2018 through 2022.⁴ The dashboard's top five corridors for fatal and serious-injury crashes were:

• Culebra Road: 116 crashes
• Bandera Road: 38 crashes
• Roosevelt Avenue: 37 crashes
• Southeast Military Drive: 34 crashes
• Southwest Military Drive: 31 crashes⁴

Transportation Director Catherine Hernandez said the tool gives "residents an unprecedented level of visibility into where the most serious crashes occur."⁴ At the time of the dashboard's launch, five Vision Zero infrastructure projects had been completed citywide and five more were under construction.⁴

Pedestrians pay the highest price

Walking in San Antonio carries real risk. The city logged 917 pedestrian and cyclist crashes in 2024, resulting in 66 deaths.⁵ The first half of 2025 brought some relief on paper: 377 such crashes through June, down from 449 over the same stretch in 2024, though the 29 deaths matched the same period in 2023 almost exactly, just with 22 fewer crashes to produce them.⁵ One weekend in late 2025 made the risk concrete: five people were struck by vehicles while crossing San Antonio streets and three died, in incidents that shared high-speed roads and missing crosswalks as common threads.⁵

A structural problem complicates the city's own Vision Zero push. About 60% of pedestrian crashes happen outside San Antonio's jurisdiction, on state-maintained roads like U.S. Highway 90, I-10, and I-35.⁵ The majority of the crashes hurting and killing people on foot aren't covered by the city's own Action Plan at all. Only the remaining 40%, on city-managed streets, fall under municipal control.

The city's response

The city's answer is the bilingual Keep Crossings SAfe campaign, Cruza SAno y SAlvo, funded by a federal Safe Streets for All grant and aimed at three corridors identified as the worst for pedestrians: Zarzamora Street, a 12-mile stretch, Fredericksburg Road, and W.W. White Road.⁶ The campaign pairs $1.2 million in five-year outreach funding with more than $4 million earmarked for median crosswalks and other infrastructure on Zarzamora specifically.⁷ Vision Zero facilitator Kristie Flores said the crash data "is going to help us also track our success with the program."⁷ Residents can flag dangerous crossings directly at saspeakup.com.⁷

The interstates reshaping the region

The highways aren't standing still either. TxDOT broke ground on the sixth and final segment of the Loop 1604 North Expansion, running from Judson Road to the Loop 1604 and I-35 interchange, part of a project that stretches from State Highway 16 near Helotes to the Northeast Side and will widen the loop to ten lanes in each direction plus dedicated HOV lanes.⁸ Segment 3, from I-10 to US 281, is due to finish in 2026. Segment 4, from US 281 to Redland Road, follows in 2027, and Segment 5, from Redland to Judson, in 2028.⁹ TxDOT counts roughly 200,000 vehicles a day on the corridor now, a figure projected to double to 400,000 within twenty years.⁸

Running alongside it, the I-35 NEX project is building elevated express lanes from the Schertz area down to Loop 410 near Brooke Army Medical Center, with the first major segment expected to open in early 2027.⁸ Federal Highway Administrator Sean McMaster toured the project in July 2026 and pointed to the corridor's importance for freight moving up from the Port of Laredo.⁸

The corridor already carries a grim recent history. On July 17, 2025, a stolen vehicle fleeing a high-speed chase slammed into a bus carrying more than 20 passengers at I-35 and Cassin Road, killing five people: Alicia Gonzalez, 42; Maria Del Rosario Sanchez Cerda, 78; Judith Paulsel, 79; Rosalio Aguilera, 69; and Jose Guerra, 50.¹⁰ Less than a year later, on the morning of July 8, 2026, a distracted driver rear-ended a slowing 18-wheeler in the I-35 southbound main lanes near O'Connor Road on the Northeast Side, killing 27-year-old Cimmeron Dwayne Kee and shutting down all southbound lanes for hours.¹¹

The statewide trend

Zoom out and Texas is moving in the right direction, even when San Antonio's local numbers don't feel like it. Traffic deaths statewide fell to 3,809 in 2025, down roughly 9% from 2024, continuing a decline that started after the state's 2021 peak.¹² Speed-related deaths dropped even more sharply, from 1,472 in 2024 to 1,247 in 2025, a 15% decrease, though speeding still accounts for roughly one in three traffic deaths statewide.¹² TxDOT ran its Operation Slow Down enforcement surge through August 2, 2026, adding officers to work zones and school zones where fines double for speeding.¹² "Excessive speed makes any crash more dangerous," TxDOT Executive Director Marc Williams said. "Higher speeds mean less time to react and a much greater risk of serious injury or death."¹²

The Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization backs Vision Zero implementation in San Antonio, Leon Valley, and Kirby.¹³ That regional support ties the city's corridor-level work into a wider push across Bexar County.¹³

After a crash

If you're hurt in a crash on Culebra Road, I-35, or anywhere else in Bexar County, the numbers above matter for one practical reason. They show which roads, and which agencies, generated the report your case will lean on. A city street crash falls under San Antonio Police Department jurisdiction. A crash on I-35, I-10, US 90, or Loop 1604 outside city limits is TxDOT and Texas DPS territory instead, and that changes where the crash report lives and who investigated it. If you need help sorting that out, the legal directory lists attorneys who handle Texas crash cases.

This is general information, not legal advice.

Sources

1. TxDOT, "Crashes and Injuries by County, 2024" (https://www.txdot.gov/content/dam/docs/division/trf/crash-records/2024/13.pdf)

2. City of San Antonio, Vision Zero SA Action Plan (https://saspeakup.com/VisionZeroSA)

3. KSAT, "San Antonio to recognize lives lost to traffic crashes as deaths top 100 in 2025" (https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2025/11/14/san-antonio-to-recognize-lives-lost-to-traffic-crashes-as-deaths-top-100-in-2025/)

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

5. San Antonio Report, "Deadly weekend for pedestrians crossing streets in San Antonio" (https://sanantonioreport.org/deadly-weekend-for-pedestrians-crossing-streets-in-san-antonio/)

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

7. KSAT, "San Antonio targets pedestrian safety on high-risk roads with planned $1.2M campaign" (https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2025/11/19/san-antonio-targets-pedestrian-safety-on-high-risk-roads-with-planned-12m-campaign/)

8. KSAT, "Federal highway chief tours San Antonio's I-35 project as TxDOT pushes ahead on Loop 1604" (https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2026/07/30/federal-highway-chief-tours-san-antonios-i-35-project-as-txdot-pushes-ahead-on-loop-1604/)

9. TxDOT, Loop 1604 from US 281 to FM 1303 project page (https://www.txdot.gov/projects/projects-studies/san-antonio/loop1604-us281-fm1301.html)

10. Fox San Antonio, "Medical examiner identifies last two victims in deadly I-35 bus crash that killed 5" (https://foxsanantonio.com/newsletter-daily/medical-examiner-identifies-last-two-victims-in-deadly-i-35-bus-crash-that-killed-5-bexar-county-death-investigation)

11. KSAT, "'Distracted' driver dies after crashing into 18-wheeler on Interstate 35, SAPD says" (https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2026/07/08/driver-dies-after-interstate-35-crash-on-northeast-side-sapd-says/)

12. San Antonio Report, "Slow down. TxDOT ramps up speeding enforcement across Texas." (https://sanantonioreport.org/txdot-speeding-enforcement-texas-operation-slowdown/)

13. Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, Safety (https://www.alamoareampo.org/Safety/)