An off-duty San Antonio Police Department officer was hospitalized Tuesday afternoon after a two-vehicle crash near U.S. Highway 281 and Loop 1604 on the city’s north side. The officer, working a motorcycle escort for a funeral procession, was struck during the collision and taken to a hospital under a Priority 1 designation, indicating potentially serious injuries. The crash happened around 1:30 p.m. as the procession moved through the area. Details about the second vehicle and what led to the collision had not been released as of Tuesday evening.
According to KSAT, the officer was working the funeral escort as off-duty secondary employment, a common arrangement in which San Antonio police officers are contracted by funeral homes or private escort services to guide processions through traffic. The San Antonio Fire Department confirmed the Priority 1 transport but did not release the officer’s identity or updated condition. The incident remained under investigation, and authorities had not said which driver, if either, was found to be at fault. Local reporting also noted that similar crashes involving funeral-escort officers have occurred in the San Antonio area in recent years.
