They Caught Him, Though
A SCHERTZ, TEXAS, AMBULANCE had just reported a drunk driver on I-35 Sunday morning when the intoxicated man sped up behind them and struck the ambulance before driving off. WOAI-TV in San Antonio explained:
The EMS crew told police they spotted a white car stopped in the right lane of Interstate 35 under the Olympia Parkway Bridge around 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. The crew said they were forced to move into the exit-only lane to avoid hitting the car, and called the Schertz Police Department to report a possible intoxicated driver. They said that minutes later, they noticed the car coming up behind them and drifting into other lanes as it approached. The car then slammed into the back of the EMS unit. Although the car was damaged in the collision, the driver swerved around the EMS unit and sped off, exiting onto FM 3009. The crew followed the car, but lost sight of it a short time later.
The car was easy to spot. (Schertz PD photo)
A Schertz Police Department officer then spotted a white KIA Optima with front end damage traveling north on Interstate 35 near FM 1103 at a high rate of speed. The officer caught up with the car and activated his lights and siren. The driver eventually stopped near Engle Road in Comal County.
The officers said the driver, identified as Mario Alberto Torres, 27, appeared to be intoxicated. After getting checked out by EMS, Torres was taken to the Schertz Police Department where officers say he failed a field sobriety test and refused to take a 'breath test.' He was then taken to the Guadalupe County Jail and will be charged with "Accident Involving Damage To Vehicle (Greater Than $200.00) and DWI.
Mario Torres
Schertz police spokesman Brad Bailey said it took the officer about two miles to stop Torres near Engel Road in Comal County. "Torres looked half-asleep and was slumped forward in the driver's seat," Bailey's release states, and once he got out, he was unsteady and Arriaga noticed he had both urinated and vomited on himself.
The ambulance was undamaged from the incident. The KIA turned out to be no match for its back step/bumper.
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