A site visitors cease in Atlanta this previous weekend didn’t fairly go as deliberate. As reported by The Atlanta Journal-Structure, whereas an officer was outdoors of his automobile, a person hopped into the police officer’s Ford Explorer Interceptor and sped away. What occurred after that’s the place issues obtained further wild, and virtually lethal.
The suspect who fled the scene within the police automotive — flashing emergency lights turned on — made it about 8 miles earlier than crashing and rolling the automobile. Sadly, the thief occurred to roll the SUV straight in between and straddling two prepare tracks. Video (under) reveals the place the Explorer Interceptor wound up in relation to the prepare tracks.
In response to the Journal-Structure, the Atlanta Police Division’s Air Unit was summoned for this chase, and so they had been those who in the end positioned the automobile on the bottom and directed floor officers to the scene. As soon as police arrived, they labored to extract the joyrider from the cop automotive. Within the video, you possibly can hear a prepare horn sound as officers work to get the suspect out of the automobile. Simply seconds after officers efficiently pull the suspect by way of the damaged window of the police automotive, the approaching prepare slams into the Explorer. How about that timing?
The person who was pulled from the police automotive was taken to the Fulton County jail, in accordance with The Atlanta Journal-Structure. He’s dealing with costs of “theft by taking, reckless driving, obstruction, harm to metropolis property, and fleeing and eluding.”
