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Suspected drunk driving crash injures three in Humble
By STEFANIE THOMAS
One man and a woman were airlifted to Memorial Hermann Hospital and another female victim was transported to Kingwood Medical Center by ground ambulance following an alcohol-related accident on the U.S. Highway 59 northbound service road at FM 1960 shortly after 1 a.m. Sept. 4.
According to Humble Police Department Accident Investigator Brian Waldroup, the driver of a red Toyota Tacoma was slowing down as he turned left onto FM 1960 when a black Nissan Titan came up behind him and barrelled into the Toyota from behind.
“The Nissan was traveling at an unsafe speed and struck the Toyota, causing it to travel across the intersection,” Waldroup said. “The Toyota took out a yield sign and hit a retaining wall, climbed the wall with the front tires and flipped over.”
Waldroup added that the Toyota came to rest upside down. The male driver of the Toyota was not injured, Waldroup said, but his female passenger was taken to Kingwood Medical Center.
The driver of the Nissan was unharmed as well, but Life Flight was summoned for his female front-seat passenger and a man sitting in the back seat.
“The people in the [Nissan] had just left Sherlock’s,” Waldroup said. “None of them were wearing a seatbelt.”
The driver of the Nissan, whose name was not immediately available, refused to take a breathalyzer test at the scene, Waldroup said, which resulted in his automatic arrest.
The Harris County District Attorney’s Office accepted a charge of intoxication assault against the driver of the Nissan, but the exact level of intoxication is still pending blood test results.
Other media reports indicating that one of the drivers had run a red light are incorrect, Waldroup said.
According to Humble Police Department Accident Investigator Brian Waldroup, the driver of a red Toyota Tacoma was slowing down as he turned left onto FM 1960 when a black Nissan Titan came up behind him and barrelled into the Toyota from behind.
“The Nissan was traveling at an unsafe speed and struck the Toyota, causing it to travel across the intersection,” Waldroup said. “The Toyota took out a yield sign and hit a retaining wall, climbed the wall with the front tires and flipped over.”
Waldroup added that the Toyota came to rest upside down. The male driver of the Toyota was not injured, Waldroup said, but his female passenger was taken to Kingwood Medical Center.
The driver of the Nissan was unharmed as well, but Life Flight was summoned for his female front-seat passenger and a man sitting in the back seat.
“The people in the [Nissan] had just left Sherlock’s,” Waldroup said. “None of them were wearing a seatbelt.”
The driver of the Nissan, whose name was not immediately available, refused to take a breathalyzer test at the scene, Waldroup said, which resulted in his automatic arrest.
The Harris County District Attorney’s Office accepted a charge of intoxication assault against the driver of the Nissan, but the exact level of intoxication is still pending blood test results.
Other media reports indicating that one of the drivers had run a red light are incorrect, Waldroup said.
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