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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Driver Leads Emery Police on High Speed Chase, While High on Inhalants

Emery County, UT
Courtesy of the Emery County Progress

On February 19 police in Emery County, Utah were dispatched to a hit and run incident. They were told that the offending vehicle (a pickup truck) had sideswiped an SUV and fled the scene.

In route to the call, officers observed a truck with half of a fence gate dragging behind the bumper. When officers pulled behind the vehicle in an attempt to stop the it, the driver of the vehicle accelerated in an attempt to lose the officers.

The vehicle then left the road and continued into the ditch before crossing into oncoming traffic, and eventually coming to rest in a wash near a home.

The driver refused to exit the vehicle and when police removed him, they noted that he appeared to have been high on inhalants.

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