Suspect flees driver's license check point; chase ends in crash
Sheriff's vehicle crashes during high-speed chase
An Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff's deputy sustained minor injuries when she crashed her vehicle into trees during a high-speed chase that ended in Florida.
Sheriff Heath Jackson said the sheriff's office, Flomaton police and troopers with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency were conducting a driver's license checkpoint on Old Fannie Road Dec. 27 when the accident occurred.
Jackson said a vehicle approached the checkpoint about 9:30 p.m. coming from Florida and turned around in a ditch and fled in the opposite direction back to Florida.
He said officers began to purse the vehicle and noted the pursuit was terminated once the vehicle entered Florida. However, one deputy lost control of her 2015 Tahoe about a mile inside the Florida line and hit multiple trees.
Jackson said the deputy was transported to D.W. McMillan Memorial Hospital in Brewton with minor injuries.
He also said no good description or tag number of the vehicle that fled the roadblock was given.
