On this Saturday, Might 16, 2020 photograph, a parade of jeeps drive down the seaside through the annual Jeep Weekend gathering at Crystal Seashore on Bolivar Peninsula, Texas. The annual occasion usually causes a whole lot to be arrested -- together with this 12 months, too.
Fran Ruchalski/The Beaumont Enterprise through AP
A Texas sheriff’s deputy was airlifted to a hospital after he was struck by a drunk driver throughout this 12 months’s annual “go topless” Jeep weekend that devolved into chaos.
Galveston County Sheriff Henry Trochesset instructed FOX 26 Houston that one among his deputies, Sgt. John Hamm, was hit by an alleged drunk driver early Sunday morning as he was responding to a crash. The deputy almost went by way of the automobile’s windshield he was hit so laborious, Trochesset mentioned.
Dozens of others had been despatched to the hospital and greater than 100 had been arrested through the weekend-long occasion for Jeep drivers on the Bolivar Peninsula. Greater than 80,000 folks attended the occasion on the seaside vacation spot in Galveston County.
Hamm was airlifted to the College of Texas Medical Department, KTRK-TV reported. He suffered two damaged legs, and likewise an arm and head harm and underwent surgical procedure Sunday.
The motive force accused of hitting him was Darius Danzell Gilbert, 22, of Jefferson County who was charged with aggravated assault with a lethal weapon on a peace officer. He was being held on a $100,000 bond.
Deputies responded all weekend to assaults, fights and drunk driving, Trochesset instructed FOX 26.
A minimum of 39 folks had been despatched to hospitals throughout Jeep weekend, together with eight that had been flown by helicopter, KPRC reported.
Galveston County Emergency Companies District No.2 mentioned on Fb the weekend festivities had been straining emergency companies regardless of months lengthy planning with state and native representatives.
“There was a big improve within the dimension of the crowds this 12 months, extra sources to help these already in place have been requested to make sure that emergency companies can be found for the safety of each the primary responders and residents of the Bolivar Peninsula,” the district wrote.
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