Sgt. Newby: I had just left the precinct, I was just rolling around, monitoring calls. I didn't notice that Officer Kim Adams was on a call on I-5 north at the Interstate Bridge. She had been there for probably 10 minutes, looking at the call on the computer. I was thinking about that spot and I was like, "If she's actually on the bridge on I-5 north, that's a bad spot because there's no shoulder for a vehicle to park, so you would have to be on the freeway itself." So, I came up, I parked a ways back, because we were actually in the right lane of I-5. I turned the wheel of my patrol car all the way to the left. If my car was to get hit, it would hopefully not go straight into us where her car was, Officer Adams' car, and then the car that was stalled on the freeway. We were standing between, kind of right on the fog line. Between her car and my car, when I just heard a huge, loud crash out of nowhere. It's funny, because they tell you like when you're in a traumatic experience, you remember everything. I heard the loud crash and I look over and I see the patrol car, my patrol car, flying towards us and it kind of turned at an angle cause the wheels were turned. The patrol car swung in front of me within maybe six inches, I remember the back end just swinging right in front of me hit Kim. I just remember her flying. It picked her up like she was a paperweight. She flew, she was probably about five feet in the air, and she flew from the fog line all the way into the center lane of I-5 and flew out probably about 25 to 30 feet. I clearly remember the front end of this white truck that's all mangled and it's heading right at me. I'm trying to get to the Jersey barrier when I just feel the truck coming, hitting me, and kind of pulled me under it and it pushes me against that Jersey barrier. The way that truck landed, it was at a slight angle. I was able to pull myself out from underneath and climb out between the truck and the Jersey barrier, then ran over to check on Kim. Luckily, I looked over her. I put some weight on her. I can remember I put weight on her leg or her shoulder, and she just yelled out, "That hurt!" That was a little relieving to me knowing that she actually was alive, because I thought, her face was covered in blood. When she landed, she landed on her head. It pulled her scalp back. At some point, I don't really remember, I called for medical and asked for the freeway to get shut down. I've heard the recordings after that, of getting on the radio. I don't really remember that piece. In the end we were super lucky. Kim's alive. She's doing relatively good for what she experienced. You'd think about somebody who, he was drunk and driving and may end up getting into a crash, especially one where it's, they drove right into the back of a police car with its lights on with flares behind it. You'd think that they would probably be, have a much higher blood alcohol level, but he didn't. He was just barely over the legal limit. It makes you realize that drunk driving when they say "Drunk driving is also buzzed driving," that means something, because it could take somebody's life. Being on the backside, this is something I'll always remember. That's the closest brush with death I think I've ever had. There's just no excuse, don't drink and drive. It's that simple. If you've been drinking find another option because they're out there, there's plenty.