New details revealed about Sunday's wrong-way driver accident

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – KRIS 6 News has obtained the police report from the woman accused of driving the wrong way on Interstate 37 while intoxicated, causing a four-vehicle crash.

Corpus Christi police said at 10:10 p.m. Sunday they were called to the 7400 block of IH-37 after receiving calls that someone was driving north in the southbound lane of IH-37. Shortly afterward, calls came in that the driver had crashed into other vehicles.

When officers arrived, they found that 23-year-old Kendra Nunez was driving the wrong way in the left lane and struck a car, causing her vehicle to spin out and be struck by another car. A fourth car then struck Nunez's car.

Three people in the first vehicle, including a 74-year-old woman, were injured and taken to a local hospital. Fortunately, no one in the other two cars was injured.

According to the affidavit, officers later determined that the elderly woman was seriously injured, suffering multiple broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a concussion.

According to the CCPD report, Nunez showed signs of intoxication, including shiny red, watery eyes, slurred speech, unusually large pupils, and a strong odor of alcohol. She told officers she was coming from Murdy's Bar and was on her way to Odem.

According to the report, Kendra stated that she was the one who was hit.

When officers asked Nunez how much she had drunk on Sunday, she stated that she had about three Dos Equis beers. When asked what time she thought it was, she said it was about 8 p.m. She then told officers she had been at Murdy's and said she got there around 6 p.m., but then she also said she had been at BUS.

According to an arrest affidavit, when an officer asked Kendra how drunk she was on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being completely drunk), she said, “She was drunk, but not completely drunk. Then she stated she was about a 5 to 10.”

The officer then wrote, “I asked Kendra if she felt safe operating a motor vehicle and she said no.”

Nunez was taken to Spohn Shoreline, where she refused to be examined by medical personnel.

She was medically examined, taken to the City Detention Center and then booked into the Nueces County Jail. Nunez has been in jail since Monday evening on $30,000 bail.