JARRELL, Texas-An off-duty El Paso police officer has been charged with DWI in a fatal crash north of Austin.
Authorities say Officer Alan Eduardo Dieguez was driving more than 100 mph on Interstate Highway 35 near Jarrell around 2:15 a.m. Tuesday when he rear-ended a semitrailer.
The trucker stopped to check on Dieguez, whose vehicle went into a ditch. Two other tractor-trailer rigs also became involved in the wreck, with one of those vehicles striking and killing the first truck driver.
Three people with injuries were taken to a Round Rock hospital.
Dieguez was booked into the Williamson County Jail on the driving while intoxicated charge and unlawfully carrying a weapon, then freed on bond later Tuesday.