Video shows suspected drunk driver crash into 2-year-old’s nursery in Fort Worth
A Fort Worth family is living in temporary housing after a suspected drunken driver crashed into their home, damaging their 2-year-old’s nursery on Saturday night.
The crash was one of several recent incidents in which drivers were arrested after their vehicles hit houses and buildings across Fort Worth. A couple of the drivers were reportedly fleeing from police in nearby North Texas cities.
Car crashes into 2-year-old’s nursery
A suspected drunken driver, 27-year-old Alianna Batista Hernandez, was speeding when she drove into a house in the 1700 block of Steinburg Lane, in south Fort Worth, about 8 p.m. on June 21, Fort Worth police said.
Hernandez’s car collided into Marseya Ochoa’s family home, according to a police report. The mother posted videos of the crash and its aftermath on TikTok.
After a field sobriety test was performed, Hernandez, who was the only person in the car, was placed under arrest. She faces a charge of driving while intoxicated.
The car tore through the 2-year-old boy’s nursery and blew through a supporting wall, a friend who organized a GoFundMe for the family wrote. The car didn’t stop until it almost reached the living room.
The toddler’s furniture, toys and clothes were all destroyed, according to the GoFundMe. Luckily, no one was injured.
“Their baby hadn’t gone down for bed yet. If he had, we’d be telling a very different story right now,” the post says.
Ochoa’s 13-year-old brother is staying with the family for the summer in a guest bedroom that was torn open. The teen was just feet from where the car came crashing through the wall, the friend wrote.
“They are doing their best to stay strong for their child and for their younger brothers, but the cost of recovery is overwhelming. Insurance is moving slowly. Legal steps are underway. But this family needs real help now,” according to the post.
Teen faces reckless driving charge
On Sunday, June 22, about 10 p.m. another car that was driving at a high rate of speed crashed into a home in the Walsh neighborhood in far west Fort Worth, police said.
Police said investigators determined that several vehicles were driving recklessly in the area and one of them hit the house in the 14500 block of Capridge Road.
The driver, 17-year-old Brandon Burbach, was arrested and faces a charge of reckless driving, police said.
No injuries were reported.
Impaired driver crashes into car wash on Camp Bowie
Earlier on Sunday evening, White Settlement officers received a report of an impaired driver on South Cherry Lane, police said in a statement.
Officers spotted the suspect’s SUV and attempted a traffic stop. The suspect drove away and a chase began, police said.
The drive lost control on Camp Bowie in west Fort Worth and crashed into the corner of a car wash building, police said.
The suspect then tried to run and was caught by White Settlement officers, police said.
The suspect was taken into custody and faces charges of evading arrest and detention in a vehicle, driving while intoxicated, and fleeing the scene of a crash causing property damage, police said.
No one was injured in this incident.
Saginaw pursuit ends in wreck
About 2 p.m. on Thursday, June 19, Saginaw police officers saw a man they believed was a suspect in several criminal offenses in the city get into a vehicle at a local business, police said in a news release.
Saginaw police said officers knew the suspect and were aware he was a felon. Officers tried to make a traffic stop, but the suspect did not yield and a short pursuit started, according to the release.
During the chase, the man’s vehicle crashed into a home in the 7400 block of Bellingham Road in northwest Fort Worth.
Officers then chased the suspect on foot and took him into custody. No injuries were reported, police said.
The suspect was wanted on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon through the ATF in the Northern District of Texas, the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department and the Mississippi Department of Correction.
Additional charge are pending in the ongoing investigation, police said.