Occurred Friday, March 30, 2012 12:30am Single Vehicle Crash Leopard/McBride  Crash# C1202372, Case #1203300003, and 1203300007

Two men were arrested Friday morning after they were rescued from a single vehicle crash while that vehicle was on fire at Leopard Street and McBride Lane.

Corpus Christi Police Lieutenant Tim Brown observed a single vehicle crash at the intersection of Leopard and McBride at 12:30am. The maroon 2002 Ford F-150  truck rolled in the crash and trapped the two occupants inside the vehicle. Police patrol officers Billy Whitehead and Raymond Harrison arrived and saw smoke and flames coming from the truck. The officers broke the back window of the truck and extracted both the 24-year-old passenger and the 27-year-old driver out of the truck.  According to officers at the scene, both men were dazed from the crash and unable to free themselves from the burning vehicle.  The passenger was still strapped into his seatbelt when officers pulled him from the wreck.

CCFD medics responded to the scene and examined both men, but neither had any significant injury.

The driver of the truck, Anthony Allen Flores (DOB: 2/4/1985) appeared intoxicated and was administered field sobriety tests.  Flores was subsequently arrested for Driving While Intoxicated and transported to Christus Spohn Shoreline Hospital for evaluation and treatment.  Flores refused to submit to a voluntary blood draw, so officers obtained a search warrant and obtained a blood sample. Flores was then booked at the City Detention Center.  DWI is a Class B misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months in jail and up to a $2,000 fine for the first offense.

His passenger, Huel J Robertson (DOB: 4-12-1987), was arrested for a public intoxication and an outstanding Nueces County DWI warrant (2nd offense).  He, too, was booked at the CDC.