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After a car accident in San Antonio
Find the right place to request your crash report, explore local law firms and get your next steps organized in San Antonio.
By SettlementLift. Published · Updated .
Finding the right local record
San Antonio’s official open-government page lists crash/vehicle accident reports separately and points to the TxDOT purchase system. A request for other police material can follow a different process. Record the investigating agency and case reference rather than assuming a general police-records request will retrieve the crash report.
San Antonio: Open government requests ↗A parked commercial vehicle raises different questions
San Antonio describes oversized commercial-vehicle parking restrictions in residential areas and at posted locations. If a parked truck affected visibility or access, save existing photos showing the vehicle, signs and sightlines. Parking restrictions and moving-truck rules answer different questions; ask an attorney which facts matter for the collision itself.
San Antonio: Oversized commercial-vehicle parking ↗Local crash statistics
TxDOT’s city table lists 39,805 reportable traffic crashes in San Antonio, including 162 fatal crashes and 596 suspected-serious-injury crashes. These are crash counts, not numbers of injured people. The table snapshot is April 9, 2025, and this is not a commercial-truck-only dataset. San Antonio’s printed severity categories sum to 39,804 while the printed total is 39,805. We preserve the published total and the one-crash discrepancy rather than invent a correction.
TxDOT: 2024 city crash table ↗A separate national fatal-crash measure
Our NHTSA FARS extraction for the San Antonio, Texas city-code area records 172 fatal crashes, 179 fatalities and 13 fatal crashes involving a large truck in 2024. It uses the first annual release dated April 1, 2026. The city-code area is not the county or metropolitan area. State and local publications may differ in definitions and release dates; do not add their counts, replace one with the other or treat a difference as an error.
NHTSA: 2024 FARS national CSV archive ↗How to read a city count
The figures describe records assigned to the exact FARS city code, rather than every crash associated with a mailing address or surrounding county. Records with unknown or other location codes may not be assigned to this city. A zero in a truck subset means no matching records in this extraction, not proof that no truck accident occurred. Counts alone do not measure comparative driving risk.
NHTSA: FARS analytical user manual ↗Keep the report and your own documents together
Save the agency and report reference, original photos you already have, insurer correspondence and receipts. For a truck crash, record identifiers visible in existing images and ask a lawyer whether other records need preservation. Do not return to an unsafe scene or assume truck involvement establishes responsibility.
Questions about attorneys and financial options
Ask whether a lawyer handles the particular accident and jurisdiction, who would work on the matter and how fees and expenses are calculated. Ask about applicable deadlines directly. If you are waiting for a case to resolve, compare billing arrangements and funding alternatives using written costs. Neither the local crash count nor a lawyer’s advertised result predicts your recovery.