Highway 281 crash victims identified

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Updated: 7/10/2012 5:14 pm
SAN ANTONIO -- Police are trying to determine if any charges should be filed after an SUV crashed into an 18-wheeler, killing a little boy.

Police say the 18-wheeler was stalled in the southbound lanes of Highway 281, when a Lincoln Navigator slammed into it Monday morning.

A passenger inside the SUV, 7-year-old Justin Kalak, was killed. The driver of the SUV, 43-year-old Ramon Justo Alvarado Jr., was seriously injured and taken by AirLife to University Hospital. Another passenger, 5-year-old Julianne Kalak, did not have any visible signs of injury but was taken to University Hospital to get checked out.

The driver of the 18-wheeler was not injured but was shaken up and broke down in tears, saying he was sorry for the accident.
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proudnative - 7/11/2012 3:16 PM
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sraspurs20, NO the driver did NOT have reflectors posted at any time, nor was he completely pulled off the road. That together with the fact that this was a flat bed in a rainy situation leaves me wondering how no one else hit him!!!! so sad for this family .... prayers for their futures ....

al1968 - 7/10/2012 5:03 PM
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I went by there shortly before about 25 minutes before the accident and was raining hard. I almost hit the trailer truck as I was passing a car to the right and had to veered left rapidly because with the rain I could not see the little red blinking lights of the trailer truck. I said to myself that somebody would hit it and then when I was returning I saw the accident. My thoughts and Prayers are with the family.

sraspurs20 - 7/10/2012 12:59 PM
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Did the truck driver have refelctors posted for other drivers to see he was having problems? And how did the van driver not see the staled truck. Sad accident and even more that someone had to die. May they rest in peace.

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