Attempt to avoid checkpoint results in high speed chase
By Staff Reports
Published in News on September 8, 2016 9:42 AM
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The Chevrolet Cruze that was involved in a high speed chase that started Wednesday night just before 9:30 pm sits on the edge of Durham Lake Road after coming out of a overgrown field. The passenger was taken into custody shortly after the chase ended and the driver ran into the woods followed by law enforcement.
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Trooper Charles Grainger writes down the VIN number of the Chevrolet Cruze that was involved in a high-speed chase through a portion of the city of Goldsboro and ended in the county Wednesday night. The passenger was taken into custody shortly after the chase ended and the driver ran into the woods, followed by law enforcement.
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The Chevrolet Cruze that was involved in a high speed chase that started Wednesday night just before 9:30 pm sits on the edge of Durham Lake Road after coming out of a overgrown field. The passenger was taken into custody shortly after the chase ended and the driver ran into the woods followed by law enforcement.
A man is on the run after a high speed chase late Wednesday night between law enforcement and a man allegedly fleeing a DWI checkpoint spanned 15 miles through the city and county and ended when the car being chased wrecked on Durham Lake Road.
Authorities are searching for the man who was reportedly driving the car that led authorities on the chase.
The Wayne County Sheriff's Office DWI Task Force was conducting a DWI checkpoint at the intersection of Center Street and Elm Street Wednesday night when a Chevrolet Cruze approached the stop, backed up, turned around and fled in the opposite direction, said DWI Task Force Sgt. Jayson Hill.
"We hadn't been there maybe five minutes when the vehicle approached, backed up, turned around and squealed tires pulling away in an obvious attempt to avoid the checkpoint," Hill said.
According to Hill, the car fled the checkpoint and sped down Elm Street, James Street, Pine street, Virginia Street, Mulberry Street, Georgia Avenue, Ash Street, Stevens Mill Road, Black Jack Church Road, Old Grantham Road, Providence Church Road, U.S. 13 South, Country Run Lane, Sandhill Drive and Durham Lake Road.
Hill said deputies deployed spike strips at the intersection of Sandhill Drive and Durham Lake Road, which took out one of the car's tires, as well as a sheriff's deputy's tires.
The Chevrolet Cruze reportedly continued to flee authorities and sped through a neighborhood across from 575 Durham Lake Road.
The car came to rest perpendicular to Durham Lake Road after driving through a thicket of brush and overgrowth and crashing into a ditch.
Hill said the passenger of the car, who was a male, was released from the scene.
The driver of the car reportedly hopped out of the car and fled on foot behind Augusta Chapel Missionary Baptist Church on Durham Lake Road and was pursued on foot by officers, deputies and K-9 units.
Hill said roughly seven sheriff's deputies and two Goldsboro police officers chased the driver who allegedly fled the checkpoint.
The chase began just before 9:45 p.m. Wednesday and ended around 10 p.m.
According to Hill, the chase reached speeds in excess of 85 miles per hour.