That crash happened just before 11 p.m. near E. Southcross and Bill Miller Lane.(from KSAT-12)
According to police, the man lost control of his van.
They say he then jumped the curb and took out a fence before crashing through the detached garage.
A car crashed through a church on San Antonio's West Side early Thursday morning, leaving behind some major damage.(from KSAT-12)
San Antonio police responded to the accident at the Woodlawn Hills Baptist Church on W. Woodlawn at Maiden Lane and said the accident left a hole in the side of the building where Sunday school classes are held.
Woodlawn dead-ends in front of the church. However, investigators said the driver did not stop and, instead, drove through four walls and finally came to a stop behind the church.
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A witness told police the car hit the curb then flew through the air as it went through the church building. It left behind 50 to 60 yards of skid marks.
An elderly woman and her daughter were rudely awakened Tuesday morning when a large truck crashed into the side of their house.(from KSAT-12)
Accident investigators said it happened around 4 a.m. in the 900 block of Mount Serolod Drive, off of Blanco Road, near Ramsey.
Witness Aurora Williams said she was following her friend, who was driving a cargo truck down Blanco Road, when he suddenly veered off the road and wrecked into the home.
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At the time, the woman's daughter thought the crash was the sound of thunder and that a tree limb had fallen on the house.
A woman crashed a pickup into a bar this morning, then ran away in high heels, police and witnesses said.(from the Express-News)
She was headed south in the 1800 block of Quintana Road about 7 a.m. when she veered into oncoming traffic, clipping a Hyundai Accent before barreling through a parking lot and into Dayzee Dukes Saloon, police said.
George Valdez, who lives next to Dayzee Dukes, peered out a window after hearing the impact and saw a large dust cloud at the bar.
Dazed, the driver emerged from the building and appeared to have difficulty getting her balance, Valdez said.
“She looked kind of wobbly, but I don't know if it was from the crash or the heels,” Valdez said.
Then, she sprinted away, chased by a beer truck driver.
Two people are dead and a home destroyed after a speeding car crashed into a house sparking a two alarm fire.(from KSAT-12)
Firefighters say the driver of that car and a person who lived in the home were killed.
The fire started just before 2:30 a.m. Sunday when the car veered off the street and slammed into the house in the 4200 block of Timberhill.
A van plowed into a home in the 3600 block of Crossette Drive near Babcock and Hillcrest Tuesday night. The driver then fled the scene, San Antonio police said.(from KSAT-12)
Damages were estimated at $6,000, according to San Antonio police.
The homeowner was inside when the van came crashing into his sitting room and garage at about 10 p.m.
"Well, I thought it was thunder," Carlos Mata, the homeowner said. "It was big thunder. I thought (a) tree fell down."
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A car smashed into a house on the northeast side sending three people to the hospital.(from WOAI-TV)
It happened just before 1:30 Saturday afternoon at Somerset and Sunrise.
According to emergency responders the car ran right through the stop sign at the intersection, hit another car and slammed into a house.
Ruben Chavez and his girlfriend, Denise Ramos, left their west San Antonio home to get food from McDonald's. When they returned, a vehicle had driven through their house.(from KENS 5)
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Ramos and Chavez live in the 700 block of S. Navidad. Emergency crews were called out to the home just before 2 a.m. for a car that smashed into their home.
The 21-year-old man who was driving the vehicle was in the driveway, according to San Antonio police. He reportedly hit the accelerator instead of the brakes. That sent his vehicle barreling into the house.
A teenager is in big trouble with the police after crashing a car into another vehicle and a house.(from KSAT-12)
The crash happened Sunday morning in the 6100 block of Jackies Farm.
Police said the teen crashed into a truck on Mystic Sunrise and tried to drive away, but that driver followed him.
The boy then sped through the eastside neighborhood and lost control, crashing into a driveway, a car, and a house, said police.
The car he hit went into the garage, badly damaging the home.
A southside family had a rude awakening Saturday when big rig crashed into a car then slammed into a section of their home.(from KSAT-12)
The crash happened at a home in the 1800 block of Kendalia.
Police say the rig slammed into a car, then dragged it as it crashed into the home.
It was supposed to be a simple home sale -- one police officer to another. In fact, they were all set to close at the end of this month.(from KENS-5)
That is, until both of the officers said their plans were wrecked by a truck smashing into that home early Friday morning.
San Antonio police said a 17-year-old driver was behind the wheel of a Toyota Tundra that slammed into the front of the home and stopped at the rear.
Inside of the house, pieces of the truck, damaged appliances, and an interior ripped apart by the crash were evident.
The accident happened around 12:15 p.m. Friday at the main [Animal Care Services] facility in the 4700 block of Highway 151. ACS spokesperson Lisa Norwood told News 4 WOAI the vehicle hit their training center. Norwood said it appeared a vehicle traveling on Highway 151 drove off the highway, over the grassy median and access road and then into the building.(from WOAI-TV)
Police say 33-year-old Miguel Martinez Jr. was intoxicated when he crashed a 2002 Ford Expedition into an apartment in the 1300 block of Rigsby Road early Monday morning.(from KSAT-12)
But as of Monday afternoon, he's not facing any charges, police said.
When police arrived at the scene of the crash, which occurred around 1:15 a.m., he was bleeding from the back of his head and his upper body was covered in blood.
And police say he's a victim.
According to a police report, Martinez got into an argument with neighbors, then several men used a steel pipe to hit him on both knees and in the back of the head.
Martinez told police that's the last thing he remembers. He said he doesn't remember getting into the SUV or crashing it.
Police said a man was test-driving a friend's car in the 600 block of Lombrano Street, when a man who was sitting on a curb stood up.(from KSAT-12)
The car then hit the man and the driver took off on foot, police said.
San Antonio Police report they are still searching for a young man who bailed out of a vehicle after it almost crashed into a house at the corner of Harwood and Buckeye.(from KSAT-12)
Instead, the small, two-door car slammed into a red truck parked outside the bedroom where homeowner Ernest Montez said he and his wife were resting.
[Officer Matt Porter, SAPD spokesman,] also said a rifle or shotgun was recovered at the scene.Who do you think couldn't tell the difference, cop or reporter?
Police say a woman crashed into the home while rushing home Wednesday night for an emergency -- a bathroom emergency.(from KENS-5)
The woman was driving north on Broadway at around 11:15 p.m. when she hit a curb and struck a house in the 10400 block of Fox Hollow.
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Police said the woman did not appear to be intoxicated. Officers said she admitted that she was just in a rush to get home to use the restroom.
A homeowner on the city's northwest side has some cleaning up to do after a vehicle plowed into her house on Sunday.(from KENS-5)
Police said the woman driving the car lost control while making a turn and ended up over correcting, sending her car through a gate and into a home in the 9500 block of Gladeview.
A man was taken to University Hospital after police said a house fell on him Sunday afternoon.(from KSAT-12)
At around 3 p.m. on the West side, police said the 32-year-old man was trying to do some leveling work on his house when it fell on him.
"What had happened is the main pier that he was jacking up actually tilted," said San Antonio Fire Department Battalion Chief Richard Giusti. "The whole house shifted and when it shifted it trapped the bottom part of his torso."
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The victim was taken to University Hospital and as of Sunday evening was in stable condition, but paramedics were also checking for internal bleeding.
The accident happened at the Hunter's Ridge Apartments located in the 2300 Block of Northwest Military.(from KSAT-12)
Crystal Marcs said she was trying to make a left hand turn onto Northwest Military when a Ford Focus came speeding through the traffic light at Braesview.
"He was doing probably about 50 miles an hour and slammed right into the building," Marcs said.
The car ended up in the front door of one of the buildings at the apartment complex.
Officers arrested the driver and found a large zip-lock bag of pot inside the car. Marcs said it appeared to her the teen was under the influence.Yes. Where are you, indeed.
"When I asked him if was OK he was like, 'Oh my God, what did I do? Where am I?', I had to get his driver's license just to get his name," Marcs said.
According to officers, the man was headed west on Ruiz when he lost control of the truck.(from KSAT-12)
Police said he hit another pick-up truck before he slammed the house.
A family was inside in the kitchen and debris from the accident injured a woman.
Police said she was taken to the hospital but her injuries were not believed to be serious.
The accident happened around 1:45 p.m. Thursday in the 4300 block of Knollshire, near Classen Road and Stall Road. A neighbor said she was working in her yard when she saw a Range Rover traveling at a high rate of speed crash into the front of the home. The homeowner said he was asleep in his bedroom in the back of the house when he heard was [sic] sounded like a "sonic boom" and then climbed out a window. He was not injured.(from WOAI-TV)
