SAN ANTONIO — Two men are facing charges after late-night street racing resulted in a highway rollover crash that hospitalized a mother and her 10-year-old child with serious injuries, authorities say.
Sheriff Javier Salazar said 19-year-old Dawson McCulley was arrested Friday at his Medina County home in connection with the Wednesday-night incident. Another suspect, 33-year-old Hammer John Felan, was previously arrested after losing control of his vehicle while allegedly racing McCulley and flipping over a guardrail into wrong-way traffic, where he crashed into the victims' car.
The call came in just before 9 p.m. on Highway 90 West, before the 211 exit on the far-west side.
Salazar said the young girl had to undergo major surgery as a result of the crash, but she and her mother are expected to survive. A woman passenger in Felan's car was also hospitalized.
“It is not a victimless crime, it is not a harmless crime," Salazar said about continuing trends of street-racing in Bexar County. "People are dying across the country out of outright stupidity.”
Felan faces five felony charges and his bond was set at $300,000; he remains jailed as of Friday. McCulley was arrested on eight felony charges, including racing and failure to stop.
Salazar credited traffic investigators with identifying McCulley as the second suspect, saying they used vehicle databases and surveillance footage from multiple businesses to zero in on him.
As of now, the sheriff added, there's no indication either suspect was drinking Wednesday night.