HOUSTON – A Houston police officer struck a suspected intoxicated driver late Friday night after the civilian disregarded a stop sign, according to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office Vehicular Crimes Division.
The officer was driving eastbound down Fuqua Street at approximately 11 p.m. when a civilian driver traveling northbound on a nearby cross street disregarded a stop sign and drove out in front of the marked patrol vehicle.
Video of the incident showed that the driver “blew through the stop sign,” said Sean Teare, Chief of the Harris County District Attorney’s Vehicular Crimes Division.
“He didn’t stop,” said Teare.
“Not only did he disregard the traffic stop sign, he didn’t even know what kind of device was there.