Records: SAPD officer was driving 100 MPH just before crash that injured fellow officer
SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio police officer has been suspended 45 days after an internal affairs investigation found she was driving 100 mph just before crashing into a vehicle driven by another officer, city discipline records show.
Officer Bianca Garcia was originally handed a contemplated indefinite suspension in late September before it was eventually shortened after she met with SAPD Chief William McManus.
Garcia and another officer were responding to a call in late June when Garcia accidentally pitted the other officer’s vehicle in the 3100 block of West Avenue.
The collision sent the other officer’s vehicle into a utility pole[1], according to a previous KSAT report.
Both officers were taken to a hospital in fair condition, an SAPD official previously said at the scene.
On-board computer software showed Garcia was traveling 100 mph on a section of road with a posted speed limit of 35 mph just before the wreck.
The crash resulted in incapacitating injuries, records show.
SAPD officials have not said who suffered incapacitating injuries.
Garcia, a seven-year veteran of the department, had previously served a three-day suspension for a crash in June 2022, records show.
She was cited for violating SAPD rules regarding the safe operation of vehicles.
Garcia began serving her 45-day suspension Dec.
8 and will remain suspended through Jan.
21, records show.
References
- ^ other officer’s vehicle into a utility pole (www.ksat.com)