3 women killed in separate weekend crashes

Three separate weekend car crashes resulted in the deaths of three women and serious injuries for three other people, according to police.

In the first crash, a sedan collided head on with a pickup around 3:22 p.m. Saturday in the 12300 block of Fischer Road, killing the two women in the sedan. The driver was 32 years old and the passenger was 15, police said. Neither has been publicly identified.

The two people in the pickup were taken to University Hospital in stable condition but with serious injuries, police said.

It wasn’t clear what caused the sedan to veer into oncoming traffic, but a third vehicle could have been the cause, San Antonio Police Sgt. Matthew Brown said.

“We’re not sure of the exact cause of that accident,” he said Saturday.

Later that evening, about 11:40 p.m., a woman was killed when she was hit by a pickup while parked on the shoulder of U.S. 90 with a flat tire, police said.

Police said the woman had been involved in a minor crash on North New Braunfels Avenue and left the site of the crash, getting on U.S. 90. She pulled over on the left shoulder near the exit to General Hudnell Drive.

The driver of a large SUV in the left lane saw the woman’s car disabled in the shoulder and moved into the lane to their right to giver her space. But the driver of the pickup behind the SUV stayed in the left lane and saw the woman “at the last minute” and ran her over, police said.

The woman died at the scene and the drivers of both the pickup and the SUV stayed and called police.

A few minutes later, a man was seriously injured when he was hit by a car while running across Interstate 35 between Thousand Oaks Drive and North Weidner Road on the Northeast Side, police said.

The man, who has not been publicly identified, “ran across the northbound lanes disregarding all traffic,” police said. Several vehicles swerved to avoid hitting him, but one was unable to move out of the way in time, throwing the man toward the inside shoulder, police said.

The driver who hit him stopped the car and called police. The victim was taken to a local hospital in critical condition, police said.