A Texas college student who witnessed a drunk driver crash into a concrete barrier on the highway filmed himself confronting the man and kicking him out of his own car until police arrived.
Deandre Lewis, a criminal justice major at Northwest Vista College, was heading home around 5pm on February 27 when a man driving an SUV careened past him on Blue Bonnet Boulevard in Alamo Heights, missed his exit and drove straight into a highway divider. The vehicle bounced off the concrete barrier stopping in the middle of the street.
Before the man, identified as 61-year-old Manuel Rodriguez-Rojas, could drive away Lewis is seen in the Snapchat video hopping out of his car to confront the drunk driver.
Deandre Lewis, 20, filmed himself confronting a drunk driver who had crashed his car into a concrete high divider in Texas
Lewis said Manuel Rodriguez-Rojas careened past him on the highway, missed his exit and drove into the concrete barrier
Lewis made Rodriguez-Rojas put his car in park while he waited for police to arrive
‘Hey, man, you done driving. Get out the car,’ Lewis yells. ‘You done driving. That’s it. Get out.’
The 20-year-old opens up the driver’s side door and tells Rodriguez-Rojas to put the car in park.
‘You drunk. Get out. Get out of the car,’ he says.
Lewis then asks another driver who had stopped to call the police.
When Rodriguez-Rojas tries to talk his way out of the situation, Lewis tells him he’s ‘done’ and to put the car in park.
According to KSAT, police arrived around 6.30pm and arrested Rodriguez-Rojas.
He was charged with driving while intoxicated. Police told the news outlet that it was his third time being charged with that offense and that a bond had been set at $10,000.
Rodriguez-Rojas was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, his third offense
Lewis, a criminal justice major at a Texas college, said he stopped Rodriguez-Rojas because he feared something worse could have happened
Lewis, who wants to be a federal agent, told the San Antonio Express News that he made Rodriguez-Rojas get out of the vehicle because he feared something worse could have happened if the guy wasn’t stopped.
‘Who knows what could have happened after that,’ he said. ‘That would have been so much more horrible than it was.’
He said he hopes the video served as a cautionary tale that ‘people are always watching’.