Gansky v. State

In the early morning hours of November 10, 2002, Parker County Sheriffs Deputy Stella Perkins was on patrol, stopped in the I-20 median facing west. She was monitoring traffic with radar and her CB radio when she heard truck drivers asking for police assistance, saying there was a white car traveling on the wrong side of the interstate. She had previously noticed a white car driving west in the westbound lane because it was driving relatively slow and because there had been little other traffic at that time. The truck drivers said the white car was driving east in the westbound lane at the 404 mile-marker and were asking for a police officer. While Deputy Perkins was trying to communicate with the truck drivers about the white car, a semi-truck pulled over onto the shoulder and the driver got out and started waving at her, pointing back towards the east. Deputy Perkins believed the truck driver was signaling to her regarding the white car. Without stopping, she proceeded eastbound trying to follow the car as truck drivers continued giving her the cars location by mile-marker. One of the truck drivers told her the white car almost hit a semi-truck at the 405 mile-marker as it continued eastbound in the westbound lane, and the truck driver who was almost hit stated so over the CB radio.