Lubbock Police provided names and details on Friday morning concerning a crash with critical injuries.  An SUV hit a car before noon on Thursday at South Loop 289 and University Avenue. 

Police arrested Billy Williams, 61, of Lubbock for intoxication assault and possession of a dangerous drug.  Another driver in the crash, Scott Carl, 22, was in critical but stable condition Friday morning according to police.

Police said Carl’s car was stopped in the eastbound access road for a red light. 

“[William’s SUV] was traveling eastbound on the access road when it rear-ended the car stopped at the intersection,” police said.  “The force of the collision pushed the car across the entire intersection of University.”

A police report cited eyewitness testimony.

It said, “[Witness 1] and [Witness 2] advised that the light was red and that [Williams] drove the listed gold SUV eastbound, not stopping for the red light and struck the grey passenger car.”

An officer wrote in the police report, “I observed [an] ice chest in the back of the gold SUV with ice and cold beers, unopened.”

“I also observed unopened cans of cold beer and ice in scattered across throughout the gold SUV interior,” the officer wrote.  “I did not smell alcohol at first but as time went on I began to smell the odor of beer.”

Police did a sobriety check on Williams.

“I believed [Williams] to be intoxicated and operating a motor vehicle in a public place,” an officer wrote in the police report.

The police report said Williams had pills in two unlabeled gray boxes.

“The pills were mixed together and [Williams] had no prescription to verify that they were prescribed to him,” the police report said.

Williams was still held Friday morning in the Lubbock County Detention Center.

Lubbock Police released the following statement Friday morning concerning a crash with critical injuries. 

At approximately 12 p.m. Thursday afternoon, Lubbock Police officers responded to a traffic accident with injuries at the intersection of South Loop 289 and University Avenue.

A car traveling eastbound on the access road was stopped at a red light in the turn-only lane. The car was waiting to turn north onto University.

A SUV, driven by 61-year-old Billy Williams, was traveling eastbound on the access road when it rear-ended the car stopped at the intersection. The force of the collision pushed the car across the entire intersection of University.

Initially, we believed the collision caused the car to hit a large truck that was also stopped at the red light. Through the investigation we now know it was the SUV that side swiped the truck before it continued across the intersection.

The driver of the car, 22-year-old Scott Carl, was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. As of this morning Mr. Carl was in critical but stable condition.

The driver of the truck, 43-year-old Walter Banks, was not injured.

Williams was arrested on scene and charged with intoxication assault and possession of a dangerous drug.

This is an ongoing investigation.