Car-ma in Ohio

Play stupid games, leave parts of your vehicle spread across an interstate highway.

From WKRC in Cincinnati: Video: I-75 police pursuit ends with rollover crash and arrest (No. It is not WKRP)

A driver who Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers tried to stop for speeding was allegedly intoxicated and suspected in a hit-and-run.

So she was drinking and driving. She was fleeing a hit and run. She was speeding, 82 in a 65. She wasn't wearing a seat belt. Allegedly.

All of that, and then she loses control of her vehicle and experiences a multiple rollover crash. Without a seat belt. That part isn't allegedly, because it is all caught on the dashcam. Including the part where she fails to stop for police who are pursuing her.

This video, posted by Local 12, WKRC in Cincinnati, is the dash-cam and body-cam video released by the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Caught on video: Police chase in Ohio ends with rollover crash, arrest.

A couple of police vehicles try to box her in to no avail, before she loses control of the vehicle. The video is about 11 minutes long, the crash, with preliminaries starts at about 5 minutes and 45 seconds in, before that they are trying to box her in, and get her to stop. After the crash they are rendering aid.

I watch a fair few police chases when I'm fighting with insomnia, but not too many close to home. This started in Franklin Township, Butler County, Ohio. It is about half way between Cincinnati and Dayton, which isn't too close to where I live, but not too far either. I haven't often been on that stretch of I-75, because if I'm going to Dayton, it would be out of my way to drive that route, but I believe that she is heading south on I-75, basically driving from Dayton toward Cincinnati.

Arkansas State Police would have executed a PIT maneuver, also known as a tactical vehicle intervention, but Ohio - I believe - has a rule about the maximum speed at which you can do that. There is also a fair amount of traffic on the interstate, and the drivers are NOT doing much to get out the cops' way. The fact that it was 6PM and people were trying to get home from work is really not an excuse. You should be aware of your surroundings, and if you don't stay well away from a police chase, you may end up as part of a crash. That doesn't happen in this case, but it does happen.