[kellyhound]

A North Richland Hills accident report on a collision involving a Watauga officer indicates that the officer tried to block a speeding motorcycle instead of taking evasive action, as the Watauga department has previously said.

The collision occurred in Watauga, but North Richland Hills took the report because it involved a Watauga police officer.
The North Richland Hills report was released under the Texas Public Information Act.

Previously, Watauga Police Lt. Philip Adams told that the officer involved in the crash 'took all of the evasive action he could, but he couldn't avoid' the collision.

The Aug. 25 collision involving a patrol car and the motorcycle sent the motorcycle driver and his passenger to the hospital. The passenger, a woman, had life-threatening injuries.

Watauga police referred questions to City Attorney Mark Daniel .
Daniel has declined to talk about the collision, saying the information is 'privileged.'
He also declined to release police in-car audio and videotapes of the collision, and the city's policy on pursuit and blocking vehicles.
The city has appealed request for the information to the Texas attorney general's office.
In his letter to the attorney general, Daniel said that revealing the pursuit policy would tell criminals how to avoid capture in Watauga.

Police have said they were chasing the motorcycle driver, Derek Muzquiz of Watauga, because he ran a red light.
They have issued a warrant for his arrest in connection with the collision, documents show. The accident report states Muzquiz was cited for evading arrest with a vehicle.

Muzquiz, 25, says the police car caused the collision.

'There's no doubt in my mind he hit us and intended to knock us off,' Muzquiz said Thursday. 'He nearly killed two people.'

His passenger, Cynthia Arredondo, 31, of North Richland Hills spent nearly a month in the hospital and was transferred to a rehab center last week, Muzquiz said. She could not be reached for comment.

Muzquiz and Arredondo were riding his black and white Suzuki GSXR about 11 p.m. Aug. 25 when a patrol officer tried to pull them over near Denton Highway and Chapman Road, Watauga police have said.

The North Richland Hills accident report states that Muzquiz fled east on Chapman Road 'at a high rate of speed.' About a mile east, as the motorcycle neared Rufe Snow Drive, another officer coming to aid in the pursuit turned west from Rufe Snow Drive onto Chapman Road.

That officer pulled his patrol car into the eastbound lanes of Chapman Road in an attempt to block the motorcycle, the report states. When the oncoming motorcycle swerved into the opposite lane, the police car swerved into the same lane. The impact threw both riders from the motorcycle.

According to a North Richland Hills officer's map of the collision scene, a helmet and shoe were found about 30 feet away from the impact, and a blood pool was 60 feet from the collision.

Witness Regina Allen was eastbound on Chapman Road, waiting at the light at Rufe Snow Drive. The second squad car, which was not using lights or sirens, made a wide turn onto Chapman Road and nearly sideswiped her, Allen said in a telephone interview.

'Then I heard a crunch and saw a girl fly through the air and land on her head,' Allen said. 'I looked back and saw the motorcycle laying under the front end of the squad car.'

Allen turned into a nearby gas station and parked her car directly in front of where Muzquiz's body landed, she said. Allen said she saw Muzquiz get up, wander a few feet and collapse. She rolled down her car window and asked the officer if he needed help, she said.

'He told me to get the hell out of there, and that I was supposed to just go home,' she said.

Allen said the officer then got out of his patrol car and screamed expletives while pulling and tugging at the unconscious Muzquiz, yelling, 'You don't know if that girl is going to live.'

Allen said she stayed in her car until Keller paramedics arrived and calmed her down. They advised her to stay at the scene and talk to North Richland Hills police.


In a closed-door session during a Watauga City Council meeting, the council discussed the possibility that the incident could lead to litigation.

Muzquiz, who lives less than a mile from the Police Department, said a police officer came to his house about three weeks ago and told him about the warrant issued in connection with the collision.
He said the officer told him the department was going to give him a few more weeks to heal from his injuries before arresting him.

The accident report indicates that Muzquiz's driver's license had been revoked or suspended at the time of the collision and that he had no liability insurance.

Muzquiz did not have active warrants in Tarrant County at the time of the collision, court records show.
He has been arrested on suspicion of burglary, assault and unlawfully carrying a weapon, with the most recent case in 2005, court records show.

So far, Muzquiz hasn't been arrested in connection with the August collision.
He said he believes that the city of Watauga is trying to cover up the patrol officer's mistakes.

'He used his car as a deadly weapon,' Muzquiz said.

[chris]

holy shit,

I can't believe he lived from that.. that's fucking nuts!

[kellyhound]

added story

[becca320]

Thanks for the story but I have a few problems with what the "witness" said first she said the cop didn't have on light or siren well I saw his lghts flashing the whole time. Second they say he used his car as a deadly weapon but looking at it yeah he swerved into him but how can you prove he did i on purpose? As soon as he turned the motorcycle was already there he could have been trying to get out of the way. I'm just saying cause the guy was trying to make it seem like it was all the cops fault but if his dumbass would not have been running it would have never happened.

[Watcher===]

Who cares?

If you screw with the cops, it's your responsibility when your Eval Kneival impersonation hits the buffers.

[Oswald2001]

Send the motorcycle rider and his passenger to ISIS Syria.