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ISP: High speed pursuit in I-65 construction zone

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A Marion, Iowa, motorist led an Indiana State Police trooper on a high-speed pursuit through a construction zone on I-65 in Lake County early this morning.

Charged with resisting law enforcement, operating while intoxicated, and leaving the scene of a crash was Rosa Sawyer, 33, police said.

According to police, at 2:15 a.m. Trooper Hansen was assisting a construction company in the northbound lanes of I-65 near Ridge Road when he observed a 2007 Toyota Camry run over multiple construction barrels and then enter an area where approximately 20 workers were making repairs.

“This area is marked by an arrow board, multiple signs, construction barrels, and a temporary concrete barrier wall,” police noted.

Hansen activated his emergency lights and siren and commenced a pursuit of the Camry, which reached “speeds of 80 miles per hour, drove over holes in the concrete about five inches deep and up to two feet wide, and nearly struck a street-sweeping vehicle head on,” police said.

The pursuit came to an end after about a mile, police said, when the Camry stopped only 40 yards from the construction crew, “many of whom had their backs” to the Camry, police said.

Sawyer was taken into custody without incident and transported to Porter County Jail.

“Trooper Hansen’s main objective was to warn the construction crew of the oncoming vehicle by using his lights and siren in a hope that the workers would see the vehicle and be able to run for safety,” police said. “No workers were injured.”

 

 

Posted 6/28/2017

 

 
 
 
 

 

 

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