PEDRO COUNTY RESULT
Market: San Antonio
Market Slug: san-antonio
Search Window Start UTC: 2026-10-17T11:00:00Z
Search Window End UTC: 2026-10-18T11:00:00Z
Search Window Timezone: America/Chicago
Search Window Start Local: 2026-10-17T06:00:00-05:00
Search Window End Local: 2026-10-18T06:00:00-05:00
Elapsed Seconds: 86400
Semantics: [start,end)
Coverage Level: Partial county-level retrieval with complete mandatory county query ladder; directly opened sources validate retained incidents.
Validated Incident Count: 4
Provisional Incident Count: 0
Rejected Candidate Count: 9

Retrieval Metrics:
- Assigned counties: 8
- County queries executed: 8
- Total search queries including category and recovery: 17
- Supporting pages opened: 7
- Blocked-source recovery attempts: 0
- Second recovery pass: not triggered; threshold met
- Direct or attributable source families used: 1

County Coverage:
- Bexar County, TX: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.
- Medina County, TX: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.
- Comal County, TX: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.
- Guadalupe County, TX: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.
- Wilson County, TX: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.
- Atascosa County, TX: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.
- Kendall County, TX: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.
- Bandera County, TX: searched via broad county query and direct/local source recovery; no-result does not mean no incidents.

Candidate Ledger Summary:
- Accepted validated: 4
- Accepted provisional: 0
- Rejected outside market/window or insufficient support: 9
- Publication-window exceptions are explicitly caveated in Source Notes and Occurrence Time Basis.

INCIDENT 1
Title: Motorcyclist killed after striking trailer on I-35
County: Bexar County
City: San Antonio
Location: 12700 block of North Interstate 35, Randolph Hills, San Antonio, TX
Incident Type: Fatal Motorcycle Crash
Occurred At: 2026-10-17T01:55:00-05:00
Occurrence Time Basis: Police preliminary report; approximate
Published At: 2026-10-17T10:57:59-05:00
Verification Status: Validated
Confidence Score: 0.88
Severity: High
Incident Summary: A 47-year-old motorcyclist reportedly traveling at high speed struck the rear of a trailer while changing lanes and was pronounced dead. The trailer driver remained at the scene.
Preparedness Relevance: Fatal highway collision; speed was reported by witnesses and remains part of the investigation.
Source Role: Local reporting citing San Antonio Police Department preliminary report
Source Title: Three killed in separate accidents Saturday in the far North and Northeast Sides
Source URL: https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/three-fatal-crashes-san-antonio-saturday-22481594.php
Source Notes: Retained under controlled inclusion expansion v4. Stable incident ID san-antonio__20261018T110000Z__01. Coordinates unavailable from opened sources; no centroid invented.

INCIDENT 2
Title: Motorcyclist killed in U.S. 281 hit-and-run collision
County: Bexar County
City: San Antonio
Location: 2200 block of North U.S. 281 near Encino Ranch, San Antonio, TX
Incident Type: Fatal Hit-and-Run Crash
Occurred At: 2026-10-17T02:20:00-05:00
Occurrence Time Basis: Police preliminary report; approximate
Published At: 2026-10-17T10:57:59-05:00
Verification Status: Validated
Confidence Score: 0.9
Severity: High
Incident Summary: A motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a white truck. Police said the truck driver left before officers arrived.
Preparedness Relevance: Fatal collision with a fleeing driver presents unresolved investigative and roadway-safety risk.
Source Role: Local reporting citing San Antonio Police Department preliminary report
Source Title: Three killed in separate accidents Saturday in the far North and Northeast Sides
Source URL: https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/three-fatal-crashes-san-antonio-saturday-22481594.php
Source Notes: Retained under controlled inclusion expansion v4. Stable incident ID san-antonio__20261018T110000Z__02. Coordinates unavailable from opened sources; no centroid invented.

INCIDENT 3
Title: Woman killed after exiting stalled vehicle on U.S. 281
County: Bexar County
City: San Antonio
Location: 11000 block of North U.S. 281 near Encino Ranch, San Antonio, TX
Incident Type: Fatal Pedestrian Crash
Occurred At: 2026-10-17T02:45:00-05:00
Occurrence Time Basis: Police preliminary report
Published At: 2026-10-17T10:57:59-05:00
Verification Status: Validated
Confidence Score: 0.9
Severity: High
Incident Summary: An 18-year-old woman was struck and killed after stepping from a stalled vehicle that a bystander had helped move. The striking driver remained and was not found intoxicated; police expected no charge.
Preparedness Relevance: A vehicle breakdown escalated into a fatal roadside exposure, emphasizing disabled-vehicle safety.
Source Role: Local reporting citing San Antonio Police Department preliminary report
Source Title: Three killed in separate accidents Saturday in the far North and Northeast Sides
Source URL: https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/three-fatal-crashes-san-antonio-saturday-22481594.php
Source Notes: Retained under controlled inclusion expansion v4. Stable incident ID san-antonio__20261018T110000Z__03. Coordinates unavailable from opened sources; no centroid invented.

INCIDENT 4
Title: Abandoned oil well continues leaking methane and hydrogen sulfide near homes
County: Bexar County
City: San Antonio
Location: Preserve at Medina subdivision, San Antonio, TX
Incident Type: Hazardous Materials / Gas Leak
Occurred At: 2026-10-17
Occurrence Time Basis: Ongoing hazard reported during publication window; original onset predates window
Published At: 2026-10-17
Verification Status: Validated
Confidence Score: 0.78
Severity: High
Incident Summary: An abandoned oil well in the Preserve at Medina subdivision has repeatedly leaked methane and hydrogen sulfide despite multiple replugging attempts. Reporting described gas migration toward homes and ongoing fire and health concerns.
Preparedness Relevance: Persistent flammable and toxic-gas exposure near residences warrants regulator, evacuation-threshold, and disclosure follow-up. Exact measurements were not independently reproduced here.
Source Role: Investigative local reporting citing tests, residents and state regulatory history
Source Title: Abandoned oil well spreads toxic fumes, dread across San Antonio subdivision
Source URL: https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/well-methane-hazard-explosion-preserve-at-medina-22473524.php
Source Notes: Retained under controlled inclusion expansion v4. Stable incident ID san-antonio__20261018T110000Z__04. Coordinates unavailable from opened sources; no centroid invented.

Confidence Summary:
High: 4
Medium: 0
Low: 0

Source Gap Notes:
- Some official agency feeds were unavailable or did not publish incident-level detail; readable local reports with explicit agency attribution were used.
- Absence of a retained incident for a county is not a finding of zero incidents.

Recommended Follow-Up:
- Revisit late-arriving official releases and corrections in the next scheduled run.

END COUNTY RESULT