The. On a crash involving a Houston
Police Department marked unit,
the crash happened at a little
before 11:00 o'clock this evening.
We had a marked HPD unit who's
traveling on few qua who's.
You know, just just driving down the street.
An intoxicated individual
disregarded the stop sign,
blew right through the stop sign
that the officer struck him.
Thankfully, no ones deceased.
The intoxicated individuals
transported to hospital.
With some, some injuries were still kind
of determining what those injuries are,
but as they're treating,
the injuries were also evaluating
him for intoxication.
Based on his statement in scene based
on his statements at the hospital.
You're dealing with a very
intoxicating liquor.
You know,
in in this area.
This happens all too often. Sadly, we're
all out here because HDD
unit was involved, but this
happens all the time. Thank God Nold was
killed, but you know, we make.
100 DWI arrests on a weekend and then,
and it's nothing.
This is but for police officer.
This is just another one of those,
so it's always.
It's always nice for me to be able to
come out and talk about these when we
don't have a tragic set of events here.
This this can be and should be a big
reminder of how serious these can be without.
A dead body sitting on the side of the road.
So this person is going to go to jail.
This person is likely going to
have a DWI conviction on their
record for the rest of their life.
But thankfully, it's not intoxication
manslaughter or intoxication.
Assault with a police officer
because our our officer is is here
on scene still did not suffer
any any significant injuries.
Which is.
He's he's OK.
Correct?
The driver was coming northbound
on this Cross Street,
which is controlled by stop sign.
And we've seen we've seen video.
We've confirmed the fact that.
He didn't stop, he didn't.
He didn't even pause and when asked about.
What the traffic control devices
were and and what he was doing.
He told the officers at the hospital
that he had the green light.
So if you guys want to pan
over and look at this,
there are no traffic lights.
So not only did he disregard
the traffic stop sign,
he didn't even know what
kind of devices were there.
So that's a good indicator.
It's what we in law enforcement
called Clue that this person
might be intoxicated and we went
through where we're in the process
of getting a search warrant to
draw his blood to confirm what?
All the field sobriety tests showed and
what we believe we have from the hospital.
Blood as well is that this
individual was highly intoxicated.
Time, this crash I guess with the spring
break and stuff coming up to speed reminder,
you know that's that's absolutely right,
like.
We're about to be on a two week span of kids,
both high school and college out,
and just.
Let loose and all of us had been there,
so this is a huge reminder to them
into their parents to convey how
important it is to not drinking.
But if if there's any other
ability to get home,
just don't give your car.
Parents give them an Uber account.
Do give them a Lyft account.
Have them submit receipts to you
and tell him you're going to pay
him back whatever it takes to not
mix alcohol and younger drivers.
That's what we have to do,
because every year we see such
a huge increase in the dwis in
the DWI crashes which always can
lead to deaths on the roads.
You know, a DWI for a 20 year old kid.
Affects them for the rest of their lives.
It changes the trajectory
of young people's lives.
And that's the best case scenario.
The worst case scenario is as
a parent, you have to watch your
child either be put in the ground in
a casket. Or go to prison for
killing someone else and we see that.
Numerous times every year.
Because of these upcoming two weeks,
so that's that is a huge part
of this in a wonderful way.
Without a death to convey that message
again is it's coming up on spring
break and we all have to do what we
can do to make sure that if we don't.