San Antonio, TX — April 22, 2024, Jason-Dean Hodges was injured following a car accident before 5:00 a.m. along Starcrest Drive.
According to preliminary details, the crash happened in the 12400 block of Starcrest Drive on the northeast corner of the Wurzbach Parkway and U.S. Highway 281 intersection.
Investigators said that 23-year-old Jason-Dean Hodges was in a Ford Mustang going southbound along Starcrest. The vehicle somehow went to the left, crossed the median and oncoming lanes, then went off-road and hit a tree. As a result, Hodges sustained serious injuries. It’s unclear if anyone else was involved in the crash.
Commentary by Attorney Michael Grossman
Believe it or not, single-vehicle wrecks like what’s described here are some of the most complex ones to investigate. It isn’t necessarily that there’s always challenging factors surrounding them. It’s that there could be unusual factors to investigate, but authorities rarely do.
Things like mechanical defects, road hazards, drivers being illegally over-served by a bar, faulty tires and brakes, and other such details tend to go overlooked. Instead, the assumption is just that the driver must have done something wrong. As possible (and frankly common) as that is, jumping to conclusions only risks letting something important slip through the cracks. I would certainly be glad to hear authorities in this incident were more thorough, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they overlooked details that need to be brought to light.
