DATE: July 5, 2014      4:05 AM
LOCATION: 1200 State Highway 286 North
OFFENSE: Intoxicated Assault (PC 49.07 Third Degree Felony)
CASE # 1407050037

Corpus Christi Police Officers responded to a single vehicle crash on the Crosstown Expressway that resulted in the freeway being closed for a short time.

The crash investigation revealed that Kimberly Gonzalez (10/25/1982) was driving her 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer north on State Highway 286 (Crosstown Expressway) approaching the Morgan Ave. overpass with another adult Daniel Rivera (01/18/1984) in the front passenger seat. Also in the vehicle, were the drivers three children, a seven year old male, a six year old female and a ten month old female all in the back seat. The two female children were in child safety seats, the male was unrestrained. While traveling north the driver and male front seat passenger got into an argument and the male grabbed and jerked the steering wheel of the vehicle causing the driver to lose control, crash, and roll her vehicle down to the access road.

All three children were transported to Driscoll Children’s Hospital by CCFD EMS with serious bodily injuries. Officers also determined that the female driver was intoxicated, and she was arrested and charged with three counts of intoxicated assault, a third degree felony. The male passenger was also arrested and he was charged with three counts of injury to a child, a third degree felony, and three counts of endangering a child, a state jail felony.

Corpus Christi Police Traffic Investigators closed the freeway until about 6:30 this morning from Baldwin Blvd. to Agnes St. while they investigated the crash.