You are hurt, your car is gone, and an insurance company adjuster is already calling. Jose Robles Jr is an Air Force combat veteran and a San Antonio car accident lawyer who represents crash victims across Bexar County, from Loop 410 and I-10 through Balcones Heights, Leon Valley, and Castle Hills. Because our office sits in the South Texas Medical Center, we are minutes from the hospitals treating you and the families waiting there.
Bexar County crashes, 2024 • Texas Department of Transportation
48,522
reported crashes
215
people killed
897
suspected serious injuries
133
crashes per day, on average
A San Antonio car accident lawyer helps crash victims in Bexar County recover compensation for medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering, and vehicle damage. Texas gives you two years from the car crash to file suit, and you can still recover as long as you are 50 percent or less at fault. Most car accident attorneys in Texas, including this firm, work on contingency, so a free consultation costs you nothing.
Call 911 from the scene, get checked by a doctor the same day, and say nothing to the other driver's insurer until you have advice. Those three steps protect both your health and the value of your claim.
Most people get one detail wrong here, and it is not their fault. Texas used to ask drivers to mail in a CR-2 "blue form" crash report. However, the state stopped collecting that form on September 1, 2017 under Senate Bill 312.
Instead, the official report is now the CR-3, completed by the responding San Antonio Police Department officer. In other words, the report your claim will live or die on is written by someone who was not there when it happened, based on what people said in the first twenty minutes.
Meanwhile, you still have a reporting duty of your own. Texas Transportation Code Section 550.026 requires a driver to report a collision immediately, by the quickest means of communication, when someone is injured or killed or when a vehicle cannot be driven normally and safely.
Fortunately, calling 911 satisfies that duty. Note that this section sets no dollar threshold, despite what you may read elsewhere.
If you are reading this from a hospital bed and none of the above happened, the claim is not lost. It just needs to be rebuilt from other evidence, which is work we do regularly.
Bexar County recorded 48,522 reported crashes in 2024, roughly 133 every day. Of those, 14,101 injured at least one person and 205 were fatal.
Specifically, those figures come from the Texas Department of Transportation's 2024 "Crashes and Injuries by County" table. Within Bexar County, the City of San Antonio alone accounted for 39,805 crashes and 170 deaths. Statewide, Texas recorded 554,146 crashes and 4,150 deaths in the same year. The chart below excludes non-injury and unknown-severity crashes so the severity levels compare like with like.
Number of crashes. Source: TxDOT, Crashes and Injuries by County, 2024.
The two smallest bars are the ones that change lives. A crash coded "suspected serious injury" is the category that produces surgeries, permanent limitations, and claims an insurance company will fight hard.
There were 773 such crashes in Bexar County in a single year. Behind each one is a family rearranging its life around someone else's mistake.
Local geography matters to how these accidents get investigated. Loop 410 and I-10 converge near the South Texas Medical Center, where merging traffic, hospital-bound drivers, and the Wurzbach Road and Fredericksburg Road corridors feed constant turning movements. Meanwhile, Loop 1604 carries high-speed traffic around the county's northern edge.
In addition, crashes in Balcones Heights, Leon Valley, and Castle Hills may be worked by those cities' own police departments rather than SAPD. As a result, the CR-3 comes from a different agency, which changes how quickly we can obtain it.
You can still recover in Texas as long as your share of responsibility is 50 percent or less. Above that line, recovery is barred entirely. This is why adjusters push fault onto you early.
The rule is Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 33.001, called proportionate responsibility. Its operative words are narrow: a claimant "may not recover damages if his percentage of responsibility is greater than 50 percent."
Below that threshold, however, your damages are reduced by your percentage rather than eliminated. For example, if a jury values your case at $100,000 and assigns you 20 percent of the responsibility, you recover $80,000. At 51 percent, by contrast, you recover nothing.
Your percentage of responsibility. Source: Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Sec. 33.001.
Below the line, your recovery is reduced by your percentage rather than eliminated. A 20 percent share of fault on a $100,000 valuation returns $80,000.
This single threshold explains most of what an insurance company does in the first two weeks. The recorded statement, the friendly question about whether you were "maybe going a little fast," the quick offer before your MRI: all of it is aimed at moving your number toward 51. However, a San Antonio car accident lawyer can document the crash independently, which is how that number gets pushed back down.
Two years from the date of the crash, under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 16.003. Claims involving a government vehicle carry much shorter notice deadlines, sometimes as little as six months.
DAY 0
The crash. Report it immediately under Section 550.026 and get medical evaluation the same day.
FIRST WEEKS
The CR-3 becomes available and the insurer opens its file. Surveillance video and dashcam footage are often overwritten in this window.
6 MONTHS
Notice deadlines for many claims against governmental units may already have passed. City and county vehicles fall in this category.
2 YEARS
The limitations deadline under Section 16.003. Suit must be on file. After this date, most claims cannot be brought at all.
Two years sounds generous until you learn that evidence disappears in weeks. Moreover, waiting removes your leverage, because an insurance company that knows limitations is close has every reason to slow down.
Consequently, deadlines are something to confirm with a San Antonio car accident lawyer rather than count from a web page, since they vary with the facts of your case.
The value depends on your injuries, your treatment, your lost income, and the insurance available. No honest lawyer can quote a number before seeing your medical records.
What can be explained upfront is the ceiling problem. Texas requires drivers to carry only 30/60/25 coverage under Transportation Code Section 601.072. The minimums include $30,000 for injury to one person, $60,000 for two or more people, and $25,000 for property damage.
However, a single ambulance ride, an emergency room workup, and one surgery can exceed $30,000 on their own. Therefore, when the at-fault driver carries only the minimum, the recovery often has to come from somewhere else. That is why an injury attorney should review your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage during the first meeting.
| Category of damages | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Medical expenses | Emergency care, imaging, surgery, therapy, and future treatment |
| Lost earnings | Wages already missed and reduced earning capacity going forward |
| Pain and suffering | Physical pain and mental anguish, past and future |
| Physical impairment | Loss of the ability to do things you did before the crash |
| Disfigurement | Scarring and permanent visible injury |
| Property damage | Vehicle repair or replacement value and related losses |
Every case is different and past results do not guarantee future outcomes. The categories above describe what Texas law allows a jury to consider, not what any particular claim will pay.
You talk to the attorney handling your case, not a rotating queue of case managers. That is the whole model of this firm.
Jose Robles Jr is a decorated Air Force combat veteran with a 95% success rate, $5M+ recovered, 1,000+ cases handled, and a 4.9 star Google rating.
Before becoming a San Antonio car accident lawyer, Jose "Joe" Robles Jr served nearly 15 years as an Air Force Military Police officer, including four combat tours in the Middle East, before earning his law degree from Texas A&M University School of Law. Afterward, he spent four years at Bailey & Galyen, rising to Managing Attorney of the Pre-Litigation Personal Injury Department, before founding this firm.
As a result, he has seen how insurance companies behave from inside a high-volume practice. He built a smaller one deliberately.
For San Antonio clients that means a bilingual team, an office in the South Texas Medical Center at 6323 Sovereign Drive, and an injury attorney who understands the military community at Joint Base San Antonio.
Furthermore, if your car crash involved a service member, a TRICARE lien, or a VA treatment record, those are documents this firm reads regularly rather than for the first time.
Choosing a San Antonio car accident lawyer should come down to who actually returns your call. We also handle truck accident claims, motorcycle crash cases, and wrongful death claims across Bexar County. For our full range of services in the area, see our San Antonio personal injury page.
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It depends on your injuries. If you walked away with no treatment and only vehicle damage, you may be able to handle the claim yourself. If you were treated by a doctor, missed work, or the insurer is disputing who caused the crash, a lawyer changes what the claim is worth. Texas law lets the at-fault driver argue you were partly responsible, and every percentage point they pin on you reduces what you collect. Therefore, a consultation with a San Antonio car accident lawyer is worth having before you sign anything. Ours is free, so finding out what your claim involves costs you nothing.
Texas car accident lawyers are usually paid on a contingency fee, meaning a percentage of the recovery rather than an hourly rate. Contingency percentages are not set by statute, and they vary by firm and by whether the case settles or goes to trial. Under Texas Disciplinary Rule of Professional Conduct 1.04, a contingent fee agreement must be in writing and must state how the fee is calculated. Jose Robles Jr Law Firm works on contingency: no fee unless we win. Ask for the fee terms in writing before you sign with any firm.
The first offer an insurer makes usually arrives before anyone knows what your treatment will cost. Settling early ends the claim permanently, including the right to ask for more if your injury turns out to need surgery or long-term care. A lawyer can wait until your medical picture is clear, document the full loss, and negotiate from there. If your injuries were minor and fully resolved, settling directly may be reasonable. If you are still treating, get advice before you sign a release.
Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 16.003 requires a personal injury suit to be filed no later than two years after the day the cause of action accrues, which is generally the date of the crash. For a claim involving a death, subsection (b) runs the two years from the date of death. Shorter deadlines can apply when a government vehicle or a city entity is involved, so those cases need attention much sooner than two years.
You may still recover. Texas uses proportionate responsibility under Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 33.001, which bars recovery only when your percentage of responsibility is greater than 50 percent. At 50 percent or less you can still recover, though your damages are reduced by your share. This is exactly why insurers work to assign you fault early, and why what you say in a recorded statement matters.
Generally no. Since September 1, 2017, the state no longer collects the CR-2 driver report, and the official crash report is the CR-3 completed by the responding officer. Texas Transportation Code Section 550.026 still requires the driver to report a collision immediately by the quickest means of communication when someone is injured or killed, or when a vehicle cannot be driven normally and safely. Calling 911 from the scene satisfies that duty and produces the CR-3 your claim will rely on.
No lawyer can honestly promise to be the best, and Texas advertising rules prohibit claims a firm cannot substantiate. What you can evaluate is concrete: is the attorney licensed and in good standing with the State Bar of Texas, will you speak with the attorney rather than only a case manager, do they handle crash cases regularly, and will they put the fee in writing. Ask those four questions at every consultation, including ours.
This page is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Consult a licensed Texas attorney about your specific situation.
6323 Sovereign Drive, Suite 220
San Antonio, TX 78229
(726) 241-2523
In the South Texas Medical Center off Loop 410, close to the hospitals where crash victims are treated. Home visits and hospital visits available across Bexar County.
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