SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
A 26-year-old woman killed Friday in a head-on crash on the Southwest Side has been identified by San Antonio police as Margarita Vela.
Vela was traveling south along the 8900 block of Poteet Jourdanton Freeway shortly before 7 a.m. when she crossed over a median and crashed head-on into a green Mercedes, according to a police report. The back of Vela's car then flew up and landed on a white pickup truck.
Paramedics pronounced Vela dead at the scene. The driver of the green Mercedes was taken to Brooke Army Medical Center in critical condition, and the driver of the pickup truck sustained minor injuries but was not taken to the hospital.
Abraham Rubalcaba, 57, stood and looked at the wreckage from afar Friday, amazed that the driver of the white pickup truck was able to walk away from the crash.
"I just want to shake his hand," he told the Express-News Friday. "I want to tell him 'God was on your side today. It was not your time.' It's a miracle."
The driver of the pickup declined to comment on the crash.