CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Department of Public Safety officials said their monitoring of Harbor Bridge exit ramps is paying off after stopping a potential wrong-way driver who tried to access the bridge April 4.
Public Information Sgt. Guadalupe Casarez said, the incident happened at around 12:53 a.m., when a trooper parked nearby noticed a black Chevrolet truck turn from Chaparral Street onto Twigg, a one-way street, the wrong direction.
The Twigg Street exit from the bridge is located near Artesian Park and the former Corpus Christi Caller-Times building in Downtown Corpus Christi.
Casarez said the trooper was able to block the truck from entering U.S. Hwy. 181, and after doing a field sobriety test on the driver, he was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after blowing a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.124 into a breathalyzer.
The man told the trooper he had been drinking at Flanagan's, a Downtown Corpus Christi bar, before getting behind the wheel. The Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission is now investigating that bar, Casarez said.
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