AUSTIN, Texas — A 23-year-old man was arrested on a drunken driving charge Sunday morning after allegedly striking a marked Austin Police Department patrol vehicle on I-35 in north Austin, injuring the officer inside.
According to the department, Zaire Brisbane struck the rear of the officer’s patrol vehicle at a high rate of speed at approximately 5:26 a.m. in the 13800 block of northbound I-35 near Howard Lane. The impact caused the patrol vehicle to spin and come to rest perpendicular to the traffic lanes.
The officer had been blocking the far-right southbound lane with emergency lights activated to protect the scene of an earlier crash, in which a large truck traveling northbound had struck a concrete barrier, sending it into the southbound lanes…