Witness captures erratic driver crash into tanker, says CHP didn't respond

Drivers across Northern California are inundated with roadside messages -- everything from billboards to calls to action. Among them, a directive to call 911 to report drunken drivers. However, few of those drunken drivers calls end in arrest, and in one woman's case, the lack of response haunts her.

On Feb. 22, driver Dierdra McElroy jumped on to Highway 99 en route to Lodi from Lathrop and almost immediately found a driver who had trouble staying in her lane. "I noticed a car that was causing problems like we all notice in the traffic. So I moved over into the left lane -- there's only two lanes -- and that car had its right-turn signal on and it suddenly tried to change lanes, literally ran this poor guy in a little black sedan out of his lane completely," she recalled. "He managed to avoid her and then she went back in her lane and he went back in his lane I was like, 'Oh wow.'" CHP Officer Mike Harris, who saw the video, said it's clear there's something wrong with the woman in the silver SUV. However, CHP never caught up to her that day. "This is the series of unfortunate events," Harris said. "The unit that was on that area was assigned to a pedestrian call on the freeway, which is a priority call over what she was witnessing on the roadway. And immediately after that call, they had a non-injury traffic collision that they had to respond to. So, as she was traveling north, the reality of these 911 calls is that they can be difficult to locate and be difficult to apprehend because they're moving and most of the time we get one call and that's it." Harris said Thursday via email that the CHP has conducted a thorough investigation and the driver has not been found.

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