CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — After over two years of intense enforcement by the Texas Department of Public Safety, the ramped-up presence near the Harbor Bridge and Highway 181 has come to an end and local law enforcement says the loss will be felt.
Since March 2023, DPS troopers have been stationed at key access points along the bridge and the highway leading into Portland. Their mission? Stop wrong-way drivers and impaired motorists before they turned deadly.
The stats are startling:
- 22 wrong-way drivers intercepted
- 811 DWI arrests
Those figures, according to DPS, represent more than just numbers they may represent lives saved…