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Posted: 2017-07-25T16:02:22Z | Updated: 2017-07-25T16:02:22Z

A Texas man reportedly took the law into his own hands after a suspected drunk driver nearly hit his vehicle during a recent night out with family in Houston.

I was taking my family to go eat some pizza and we saw him coming towards us and he missed us and I saw the right side of his car gone, Alejandro Fernandez told KTRK-TV .

The man behind the wheel of the heavily damaged Ford Mustang continued to drive recklessly and was weaving in and out of traffic, Fernandez said.

There were two [pedestrians] on the corner, and he almost ran over them, Fernandez told WTOL-TV . Thats when we decided to turn around and start following him.

Fernandez said a passenger in his vehicle called 911 while another pulled out a cellphone to record what they were seeing.

It was crazy, he told KMOV-TV . Ive never seen anybody driving like that.

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