Teen Cited For Driving Without a Tire, Drinking

I totally forgot to post this a few weeks back, but the lesson still holds true today: check all four tires before you decide to drive. From the Highland Park Crime Watch:

On the morning of Wednesday, June 15, at approximately 1:30 a.m., Officers Wade, Barber and Sgt. Byrd were in the 4700 block of Lakeside Drive speaking with a young couple and advising them of the Lakeside Park’s curfew hours when they heard a loud noise coming from south of their location. As the moments passed, the officers reported the noise became progressively louder and soon realized that a vehicle was approaching northbound on Lakeside traveling without a tire; on the rim only.

Officers stepped into the street to initiate a traffic stop of the vehicle. Contact was made with the 16 year old driver who was unaware that he was driving without a tire. He seemed sincere in his inability to recall whether or not he had been in an accident. Officers then asked where he was when he got in the car and he stated that he was with four or five friends at a house near Amherst Avenue and Boedeker Drive, admitted that he had been drinking “rum and coke” with them and was simply trying to get home, which was a few blocks south of that area.

Officers questioned him if he knew his current location, which was on Lakeside Drive, and the juvenile responded that he thought he was on Haynie Avenue. It was at this point that Officers conducted the Standard Field Sobriety Tests (SFST’s). The resulting clues from this test, caused the Officers to arrest the juvenile and charge him with a Minor DUI.

A subsequent investigation revealed he had been operating the vehicle on the rim from Central Expressway to Lakeside Drive by way of Harvard Avenue, St. John’s Drive, and Euclid Avenue.

Officers discovered this was not the first time the juvenile had interaction with the HPDPS, having been issued a Minor in Consumption citation earlier in the year and stopped by police on a separate traffic incident as well.

By Bradford Pearson Jun. 29, 2011 | 1:47 pm | 12 Comments | Comments RSS
12 comments to "Teen Cited For Driving Without a Tire, Drinking"
  1. Bill @ June 29, 2011 at 2:29 pm
    That kid needs to be sent to rehab, far away from here. Sounds like he will not learn his lesson till he kills someone.

  2. Avid Reader @ June 29, 2011 at 3:40 pm
    Kids are dumb. Where are the parents that allow a dumb kid who already has one MIC to be hanging out with a bunch of other dumb 16 year old kids till 1:30 am on a Wednesday night. If my dumb kid had gotten an MIC before he turned 16 I wouldn’t even let him buy a car with his own money. If my dumb kid got an MIC when he was 16 his car would be on ebay the next day.

    Side note: The kid told the cops that he was drinking “rum and coke”; why did it take him saying he thought he was on Haynie for them to conduct the SFST?

  3. M @ June 29, 2011 at 4:45 pm
    Everyone out of the gene pool.

  4. DemBones @ June 29, 2011 at 4:48 pm
    Bradford, what is the curfew? HP Police have told me that there isn’t one. Is this new? Just at Exall Lake?

  5. Bradford Pearson @ June 29, 2011 at 5:11 pm
    @DemBones- Per the Highland Park Code of Ordinances: “No person shall remain, stay or loiter in a park between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 5:00 a.m. on any day. (1971 Code, sec. 12-30.1)”

  6. IN-n-out @ June 29, 2011 at 11:50 pm
    There is no CURFEW in Highland Park however…

    1. No person shall remain in any HP parks after midnight and before 5am.

    2. Any child may not drive after 11pm until they are 18.
    This is not enforced generally, however, if stopped, a citation may very well be given for this.

  7. UP Parent @ June 30, 2011 at 10:00 am
    Attn IN-n-out –

    That is not exactly correct. Texas state law states ‘May not operate a motor vehicle, or a motorcycle/moped unless in sight of the person’s parent/guardian, between midnight and 5:00 a.m. unless the operation of the vehicle is necessary for the operator to attend or participate in employment or a school-related activity or because of a medical emergency’ and this expires 12 months after their license is issued. Here is link to the Texas Gratuated License program for teens: http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/DriverLicense/graduateddriver.htm

  8. kmom @ June 30, 2011 at 11:10 am
    We were under the impression our kid could only drive until midnight when for the first 12 months of having his license. And they can only have one non-related person in the car with them, I think that is the best law by far. Drivers in their first year are distractable, barring them from having a car full of friends until they’ve driven for a full year is awesome. FYI – If they pull over a kid in UP after 12 AM, if it’s before 2:00am and it’s a weekend or holiday, and they are headed home, sober and driving well, they never ticket them. They just tell them to scoot straight home and be careful.

  9. Avid Reader @ June 30, 2011 at 2:39 pm
    Curfew-Smurfew. Seems like he had permission to be out and about from his parents at that time. Kind of think that the bigger deal is that the kid was drunk and driving on a tireless rim.

  10. k nub @ July 1, 2011 at 12:20 pm
    total frat move

  11. Jgo @ July 1, 2011 at 2:08 pm
    This kid sounds like a real genius. One would think the first run in with the law would have taught him to at a minimum shut your mouth around the cops.

  12. girlmom @ July 2, 2011 at 5:35 pm
    The 12 o’clock midnight curfew is Dallas rule, not UP/HP.

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