LAKEPORT, Calif. — The Lakeport Police Department said it arrested a driver involved in a suspected drunk driving crash and an intoxicated bystander who kept interfering with an officer following a crash on Wednesday evening.

At approximately 5:39 p.m. Wednesday, Lakeport Police officers were dispatched to a traffic collision involving a parked vehicle in the area of S. Main Street and Oak Knoll Avenue.

While they were responding, the officers were advised that one of the vehicles had possibly fled the area, police said.

An officer arrived on scene, and the owner of the parked vehicle that was hit advised the officer that the other vehicle did not flee the scene but was two blocks north of the accident with their emergency flashers on. 

The report said the officer located the vehicle, a Chevrolet Silverado, and contacted the driver. While speaking with the driver, the officer observed signs and symptoms of intoxication. 

While the officer was speaking with the suspected DUI driver, a second uninvolved male approached the officer and driver and began to obstruct the officer's investigation. 

The male was slurring his words, and the officer could smell an overwhelming odor of alcohol coming from his breath. The male was asked to leave the scene and advised that he could continue observing from a safe distance, but that he was not to continue obstructing the investigation. 

Police said the male refused to leave after several warnings. He then walked away and approached the officer again and refused to leave, at which point the officer attempted to detain the male in handcuffs. 

The male resisted arrest, prompting a code three — lights and sirens — response from a second responding officer. The man was taken into custody shortly after and charged with resisting/obstructing law enforcement in their official duties and drunk/disorderly in public.

Following that arrest, the officer continued his DUI investigation, and after conducting field sobriety tests, the driver of the vehicle was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. 

Upon receiving a breath sample from the driver, it was found that the driver's blood alcohol content was almost three times the legal limit. 

Both the driver of the vehicle and the bystander were transported to the Lake County Jail, where they were booked, police said.