52 year-old Graciela Angel was walking on the sidewalk on Potranco Road when a crash happened, sending one of the cars onto the sidewalk, killing her.
It’s been one year since the death of Graciela Angel.
In April of 2024, the San Antonio mother was walking on the sidewalk on Potranco Road when a crash happened, sending one of the cars onto the sidewalk, killing her.
Now Graciela’s three daughters are calling for accountability.
The daughters say they want the woman responsible for the fatal crash to face some type of consequences for her actions.
Angel’s daughters says their mother was walking home on the sidewalk in the 9800 block of Potranco Road when the crash happened.
“Which pushed one of the cars onto the sidewalk where she was at, and ran her over, and she was fatally taken from us,” said Selina Angel, Garciela’s daughter.
For Angel’s daughters, it’s been a year long journey for accountability in their mother’s death.
“The police report says that she failed to yield and in the state of Texas if you fail to yield, you’re at least supposed to get a citation and she didn’t even get that,” said Monique Radke, Garciela’s daughter.
San Antonio police investigated the crash and in a statement said:
“The fatality vehicle accident was deemed to have no criminal elements associated with it. No criminal charges are pending, therefore no arrest will be made.”
We asked attorney Joe Holesher to weigh in on the crash.
“The problem in this case is that at best, this is criminally negligent homicide, and criminally negligent homicide cases are very difficult to prove,” said Holesher.
Holesher says it would be difficult to prove the driver who made the left turn could have foreseen the other crash that killed Angel.
“That’s negligence. It’s not criminal negligence, in that there’s any reasonable foreseeability, that her negligence would cause that outcome,” said Holesher.
For now Angel’s daughters have a message to the driver, who they hold responsible.
“It’s never going to be the same, and we just want her to know that she took that from us. If she would have just waited a little bit, waited a second more, you know none of that would have been taken from us, from our dad, from our babies,” said Nicole Angel, Garciela’s daughter.
Angle’s daughters say they will continue their fight for accountability, and plan to meet with an SAPD detective in the coming weeks.