Multiple Suspected Drunk Drivers Crash Into Emergency Vehicles in Texas Early Sunday

Early Sunday morning in Fort Worth, a pickup truck driven by an allegedly intoxicated individual crashed into a fire engine parked at a 45-degree angle to protect the scene of an earlier single-vehicle accident on the U.S. 287 interchange. The collision trapped the truck's two occupants, who were extricated by firefighters and hospitalized, while no firefighters were injured. Authorities charged the driver, Zachary Carlisle, with intoxication assault with a vehicle, pending toxicology results. Separately, in Montgomery County, Texas, two suspected drunk drivers were involved in back-to-back crashes on U.S. Highway 59, with one vehicle hitting a fire truck and a tow truck that were responding to the initial crash, resulting in injuries to the tow truck driver but no firefighter injuries. Both incidents highlight the dangers emergency responders face from impaired drivers and underscore calls for driver vigilance and adherence to traffic laws around emergency scenes to protect responders and the public.