Officer uses patrol car to stop wrong-way driver on Westpark Toll Road

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Newly released video shows the shocking moment when an officer used his patrol car to stop a wrong way driver, was flying down the Westpark Toll Road.

Deputies got a report early Monday morning of a wrong-way driver heading inbound in the outbound lanes. The deputy worked to keep traffic behind him, then used his patrol car to get that driver to stop.

The wrong way driver, 18-year-old Gabriella Vialta was not hurt. She's charged with driving while intoxicated.

The deputy who stopped her, Jason Mosley, is recovering from a sore neck and back.