One wrecks McAllen Police Department SUV
With regard to drunk drivers, there is good news and bad news.
The good news is, for both the public at large and attorneys in search of work, a lot of them are being caught and arrested (see DWI pages 22 through 23). By the time one is done with the legal process, they’ve dropped between $8,000 and $10,000 for a simple driving-while-drunk charge. Add extenuating circumstances – vehicular manslaughter – and time to kiss much of your future goodbye.
The bad news is, too many people don’t seem to be getting the message – don’t drink and drive.
“I’ll drink to that.”
There you go. Another booze hound on the loose.
“Where are my car keys?” Part of the problem. When people drink and drive, their judgment becomes flawed. “My fudgement isn’t blawed.”
How else to explain the story of 20-year-old Alamo resident Emily Ann Robles who was arrested and charged with DWI this past Sunday morning after ramming her pickup into the rear of a McAllen police SUV at approximately 6 a.m.
In a way, she saved police time when she (allegedly) plowed her truck into the parked patrol unit – they didn’t have to go in search of her.
“Here I am.”
And there she goes, in handcuffs, to a local hospital where she was treated for a non-life-threatening injury before being transported to the Hidalgo County jail, also in a pair of cuffs, where she bonded out for $2,000 after being charged with DWI, a Class B misdemeanor.
Presumably not a flight risk, Robles now has the unenviable task ahead of her – dealing with the court system, her insurance company.
“You ran into a parked police unit?”
No telling what her future insurance rates will be: “Have you ever had a wreck?” “Yes.” “Explain in detail the circumstances surrounding the wreck.”
While McAllen cops were helping their Pharr brethren in blue work a fatal crash scene along the expressway early Sunday morning, Oct. 27, with their respective vehicles parked, bright lights flashing, blocking part of an expressway lane to work the unrelated fatal crash, police say Robles came barreling down I-2 (Exp. 83), failed to slow before plowing into the rear of an unoccupied McAllen PD SUV.
On Social Media, the McAllen Professional Law Enforcement Association posted several photos of the wrecked patrol unit. If someone had been sitting in the rear seat, or even the front seat, the pictures suggest at least a bad case of whiplash or worse.
No doubt at least one cop working the fatal crash scene had to watch the spectacle unfold and say, “You gotta be kidding me.”
Court records show no priors.