[CRASH] Texas: Street Racing Corvette Causes Five Car Accident in San Antonio

[Rob]

18-year-old Sergio Herrera was driving home from dinner with his mom when they came across a 5-car crash on the 3900 block of Thousand Oaks Drive that was strewn over all four lanes of the road.

According to one witness, the driver of a C5 Corvette was racing another driver in an Infiniti. When a third driver in oncoming traffic took a left-hand turn, the driver of the Corvette couldn't stop in time, slamming into the third driver as the Infiniti, slammed into the back of the Corvette and into a utility pole.

The driver of the Corvette was ejected from the car before it caught fire and was laying unconsious near the car as Herrera pulled up. Herrera immediately dragged the Corvette driver away from the car as it was burning.

Debris from the accident damaged two other vehicles in the process.

According to Herrera, he's not suprised they were drag racing in that area. Apparently, that strip of Thousand Oaks Drive is attractive to street racers.

Remember folks: keep it on the track. As tempting as it may be at times, it's not worth losing your life, or putting other lives in danger just to race another car on the street.

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[timfitz63]

This happened only a few miles from my house in San Antonio, so I'm familiar with that stretch of road.

First off: unlike this report implies, this is not a stretch of road where street racing occurs regularly; but drivers are often exceeding the posted speed limit. And it's still conceivable that these two drivers in particular were street racing. Secondly, I'm not sure what these guys were thinking if they were racing along that stretch of road. Although it's relatively straight, there are rises in the terrain that would prevent one from seeing the road for more than a quarter of a mile or so ahead. Plus the road surface is less than smooth. And while there are relatively few traffic signals on that particular stretch of road, there are businesses and residential properties with vehicles entering/exiting. In short: a really poor choice for street racing (not saying there are any good choices, though...).