Austin city council under fire for police shortage after family in suspected DUI crash waits hours for help

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Austin city council under fire for police shortage after family in suspected DUI crash waits hours for help
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Texas couple says the suspect sobered up and walked away with a minor traffic violation after it took police over two hours to respond to their 911 calls.

Lacey and Dustin Purciful and their attorney Adam Loewy discussed how the understaffed Austin Police Department resulted in an hours-long response to a crashwhen their vehicle was hit head-on by a suspected drunk driver.

The couple and witnesses called 911 several times before they were finally told the truth about the situation.

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