• December 27, 2022

San Antonio, TX -- December 21, 2022, Sabrina Lynn Garcia was killed and another was injured following a single-vehicle accident.

Initial details said that the accident happened early Wednesday in the area of Loop 410 and Highway 151. It appears 25-year-old Sabrina Lynn Garcia was in a vehicle which somehow lost control and crashed onto the southbound transfer ramp. Garcia was thrown from the vehicle and sustained fatal injuries. The other occupant of the vehicle, currently unidentified, had unspecified injuries.

The cause of the crash has not been confirmed at this time, but it's no surprise to see some heartless locals already in some comments sections jumping to conclusions. "They were drunk, they didn't have their seatbelt on, they were driving too fast," etc., etc. Look, those are all common factors, but it's just plain disrespectful to go around jumping to conclusions. That's especially true considering the very real possibility the driver of the vehicle had no control over the situation.

Think about the infamous GM ignition switch defect. Over a hundred people died reportedly due to the manufacturing defect those victims couldn't have possibly known about. How many of them were blamed for a crash they couldn't avoid?

I'm not saying that happened here, of course, but the focus in these situations should simply be on letting the evidence speak for itself. That's going to take a lot more than a couple of news reports likely based on incomplete police investigations. I know when people come to me with details like these that there still needs to be far more thorough independent accident reconstructions before any real conclusions can be drawn. It would do the victims and families in these awful situations a world of good for others to learn that lesson, as well, and keep their baseless assumptions to themselves.

In fact, we have an article below that can help explain some possible factors that can slip through the cracks if investigations aren't thorough enough.

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