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A deadly collision in Texas has stunned police after the pedestrian victim was found in the driver's passenger seat 65 km away where they were allegedly fatally hit.
"When you're impaired to this level, where you hit a pedestrian on the roadway and you think it's an animal, that's a significant impairment," the chief of White Settlement police Christopher Cook said.
"In all my 28 years, I have never really worked a case like this."
Police are still trying to figure out exactly what happened, but they are slowly putting the confusing pieces together.
Around 11 pm, a passerby called police to report a driver who appeared to be slumped over their steering wheel in the car park of a Jack in the Box restaurant.
The caller also said the grey Kia Forte appeared to have extensive damage to its front bonnet and windshield.
When police arrived, they found the driver. But they also discovered another person in the front passenger seat who paramedics later pronounced dead.
Police detained the driver, Nester Lujuan Flores, who they allege was intoxicated.
The 31-year-old Flores told police he believed he hit a deer somewhere in Dallas.
But police said they believed Flores hit the person with his car somewhere between Arlington and White Settlement, a suburb in north Fort Worth, and that the impact was so severe the victim was thrown inside the Kia Forte.
There was "significant trauma to the body (including) missing some body parts," Cook said.
"This scene was really hard for our fire teams, our police teams, our (paramedic) teams to even work a case like this," he said.
Flores is facing charges of intoxication, manslaughter and possible hit and run.
Flores has a previous drink-driving conviction, Cook said.