By Police1 Staff
OAKLAND, Calif. — Video captured the moment a DUI suspect ran a red light and slammed into a cruiser at an intersection.
According to KTVU, the Alameda County sheriff’s deputy was returning to a police station Sunday when suspect Gregorio Bautista Garcia, 21, ran a red light and broadsided the deputy. The crash sent Garcia’s car into a lawn outside a church and started a fire inside the deputy’s vehicle.
Garcia was charged with misdemeanor DUI. The deputy is expected to be OK.
“We’re lucky that our deputy survived this accident. A few more feet and he would have been severely injured, if not killed in that crash,” Sheriff Greg Ahern told KTVU.