Posted on 03/23/2023 1:13:54 PM PDT by grundle
A couple hit head on by a suspected drunk driver in Austin, Texas, said it took 2.5 hours for police to respond to the crash – allowing the driver to sober up and avoid charges.
Lacey Purciful told Fox News Digital the family called 911 five times after the March 18 crash, but the severely understaffed police department left them waiting.
Purciful said she was driving with her husband Dustin and two children down Jollyville Road in North Austin at around 4 p.m. after a day at the aquarium when a male driver cut across two lanes of traffic and slammed into them head-on.
"Head on, didn’t hit the brakes, airbags deployed, screaming kids, smoke, adrenaline, we started screaming, and got the kids out of the car," Purciful told Fox News Digital about the crash.
The military family quickly realized the driver, a male in his 70s, was intoxicated. Purciful says that the "first thing" a bus driver on the scene told her was that the man "smells like alcohol" and was "refusing to get out of the car."
"He never asked if our children were OK. He never apologized. I have a video of him smiling at me as I’m calling him a drunk driver. He’s just standing there smiling at me."
Austin’s city council slashed the police budget in 2020 amid the George Floyd riots across the country and has been mired in a situation where police staffing has plummeted and not recovered even though funding was restored after the state stepped in.
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Austin is a Far Left “Defund the Police” city in decline.
They probably voted Democrat and had an ACAB placard in their window. Whoops, vote better next time or if you are GOP, move out of Austin.
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