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CLEARWATER, Fla. \- Clearwater Police Department officers responded to a crash early Friday morning on the Courtney Campbell Causeway involving a drunken driver and a highway work vehicle. The crash occurred at 2:43 a.m. in the westbound lanes of the causeway. That’s when Andra Newkirk, 36, of Tampa crashed into the rear of a road work vehicle that had its emergency lights activated and was stopped. Read: Clearwater Police, Publix Unite To Make Mother’s Day Brighter For Senior Citizens One worker employed as a Department of Transportation subcontractor was taken to Mease Countryside Hospital f…