Cheri Pressley, a former KPRC 2 Houston photojournalist, is in the hospital recovering from what her former station described as "a serious head-on collision involving a suspected drunk driver—who had already been arrested for DWI just weeks earlier."
KPRC reports a wrong-way driver struck Pressley as she was driving in a one-lane HOV stretch on the Gulf Freeway.
“I was going 60. I’m sure he was going at least that,” Pressley told reporter Joel Eisenbaum. “So that’s 120 miles an hour at least.”
Pressley suffered three breaks in her leg.
"My driver's door was somehow punched in, and that metal broke my femur," Pressley told FOX 26 KRIV Houston reporter Randy Wallace. "He crawled out of his vehicle, and tried to escape, ran across the main lanes."
Before joining the Mayor’s Office, Pressley spent 21 years at KPRC 2.
Earlier in her career, the Texas State University grad worked at KUSA 9 Denver, KDFW 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, and KSTP 5 Minneapolis.