My friend and I came around the corner of Lake Woodlands and Lake Robbins, I catch up to him, honk, yell to him that we are going to my house on our break instead of going straight to work early.
He nods, takes off, drives a Pontiac Formula 1. Speed limit is 35, I don't know what I was doing, it was above the probably speed limit but nothing extreme at all if I was, he got up to around 83 (accident investigators say), came up where it turns a bit by HEB, braked... lost control hit a left curb, came back right across, hit the curb, flipped 3 times horizontally while hitting a Woodlands sign, an electrical box, two trees and landing upside down in a slanted culvert in the ditch at the corner of Grogan's Mill and Lake Robbins.
Long story short on my end, an eyewitness said we were street racing and that is all it took for them to charge me, apparently. Off to jail I go.
He is the luckiest fucker I know. His car flipped upside down and he fell out of his roof where the t-tops came out, landed in water up to his neck because the slanted ditch culvert was directly below him. If the car had landed on normal flat land he probably would have been crushed. He walked out without a single scratch on him, and he wasn't wearing his seat belt. Oh and furthermore when he got to the hospital they took his blood and he had a BAC .06 so if he had probably had one more beer at Hooters things could have been infinitely worse. The officer on the scene, Officer Herring, said that he walked up to the scene and asked the paramedics where the body was, and he refused to believe the driver was standing walking around on the phone.
The officer also told me that apparently since I got charged for street racing, if he had so much as a scratch it'd be bumped up to felony since it's racing with bodily injury. I have my own arguments/disputes against my legal involvement in this, but this isn't the place to do that, so I'll just leave it alone.
Time for the important part:
No one was hurt at all, driver or pedestrian or other cars. He walked away from a totaled car, and we had a crazy night. Legal issues aside, this had a happy ending fortunately.
Big props to Travis/Chance apparently keeping an eye out on my bail and planning to bail me out, fortunately I got a Public Recognizance Bond so it's no sweat, and Travis picked me up and got my car out of impound within an hour.
Sigh, what a night....
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