Doorbell Cam Shows Four Kids Barely Escape the Flaming Motorcycle That Exploded in Front of Them

Eleven-year-old Jayden Martinez was just walking home with his friends on a residential street in west Bexar County.

Then a motorcycle erupted into a fireball yards away.

What the security camera caught – and what Jayden said about it afterward – is something every parent in America needs to see.

What Happened on Wooden Fox Street

The crash hit the intersection of Wooden Fox and Oakwood Crest at 3:30 p.m. on April 2.

Neighbor Robert Perez had just picked up his son from school and noticed a commotion outside.

He pulled up his home security camera.

"I literally looked at the video and said, 'Oh my God, I cannot believe that just happened,'" Perez told KENS5.

The footage shows a motorcycle screaming into the frame, the rider sliding across the pavement behind it.

The bike slams the curb and detonates into flame – airborne, striking a light post, careening toward a tree near Stone Creek Park.

Four children are on the sidewalk.

They run.

The rider is on fire too, sprinting through the grass while other drivers pull over to help.

"It was nothing short of a miracle that none of those children were hurt," Perez said.

The Bexar County Sheriff's Office transported the rider to a local hospital with second-degree burns.

Aside from those burns, he survived.

Jayden Martinez, 11, Says What Every Parent Already Knows

By Friday, KSAT had found Jayden.

"It was a little crazy, but I am OK," the 11-year-old said. "Still walking the streets."

He described what happened fast and with the kind of calm that would make you proud if he were your kid.

"I was just walking home with my buds, back home, near the main street. And next thing you know, the guy just crashes."

He didn't freeze.

"I was a little bit scared, but I just called 911 and hoped for the best, really."

His mother, Nicole Martinez, said she has been trying to get the speeding fixed long before a fireball forced the issue.

"People are just zooming in and out," she said. "So I'm consistently having to remind him, 'Make sure that you're not on your phone. Make sure that you're aware.'"

His grandmother had less patience for the drivers.

"There's a lot of speeding down here, racing," she said. "It's very, very disturbing to see these people think that it's a joke, it's funny. It's not."

The County Knew – and Did Nothing Until a Camera Caught It

Nicole Martinez didn't start making calls after the crash.

She'd been calling before it – and getting nowhere.

"It's just being punted back and forth," she told KSAT. "Very frustrating."

The speed limit on Wooden Fox is 20 mph – a road Robert Perez says drivers use as a shortcut and take blind around a curve that hides what's ahead.

"I've seen these poles put up several times, and lately they just haven't come back to put up new ones," Perez said. "I think they gave up."

When KSAT reached the office of Bexar County Commissioner Rebeca Clay-Flores, the Democrat whose district covers this neighborhood, a spokesperson confirmed the office had not received any prior calls about the speeding problem.

A mother who couldn't get a callback became a viral video.

After the footage went national, Bexar County Public Works finally said it has started looking into the concerns along Wooden Fox.

A Fireball Was What It Took

The road Jayden Martinez walks every day sits in unincorporated Bexar County – outside San Antonio city limits, which means any fix requires the county to move.

The same county that just admitted it hadn't heard a word about this dangerous road until it ended up on the evening news.

The Bexar County Sheriff's Office has increased patrols in the area since the crash.

Jayden's grandmother isn't satisfied, and she shouldn't be.

Speed humps – the kind that costs around $300 a unit to install – reduce average vehicle speeds by up to 25% and cut crash rates on residential streets by an average of 13%.

Nicole Martinez asked for something like that.

She was told to keep waiting.

Her son called 911 instead.

Sources:

• Brad Anderson, "Bike Crashes Into Curb And Bursts Into Flames, Nearly Taking Four Kids With It," Carscoops, April 12, 2026.
• Katrina Webber, "Boy describes narrowly escaping injury when motorcyclist crashed, burned in west Bexar County," KSAT 12, April 10, 2026.
• Pachatta Pope, "Motorcycle crash ends in flames near kids; far West Side residents urge need for speed bumps," KSAT 12, April 6, 2026.
• Pachatta Pope, "After fiery motorcycle crash on far West Side, county urges residents to report street safety concerns," KSAT 12, April 7, 2026.
• Staff, "'I cannot believe that just happened': Close call caught on camera as motorcycle crash and explosion narrowly misses children on sidewalk," KENS5, April 2026.