Chevy Camaro Involved In High-Speed Police Chase In The Rain: Video
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Driving in the rain can be really dangerous. Between the lower grip levels, reduced visibility, and unpredictable road conditions, even small mistakes can have major consequences. Add in a high-speed chase between a Chevy Camaro and Arkansas State Police, and things can get pretty dang hairy, as seen in the following video.
Per the video description, this incident occurred on Tuesday, June 13th, around 10 a.m. local time in Miller County. Officer Jordan Drake states that he stopped a silver Chevy Camaro on U.S. Highway 67 for an unreadable paper tag and no lights. The conditions are rainy and overcast, and the roads are soaking wet.
Around the 1-minute mark, Officer Drake is seen conducting the traffic stop. However, after a few seconds, the Chevy Camaro takes off, prompting the police officer to give chase.
Although the Chevy Camaro quickly speeds off into the distance, Officer Drake nails the throttle, quickly eclipsing the 100-mph mark. As the road straightens, we see the GPS speed indicator in the bottom left hand corner hover around 120 mph, then creep up to 130 mph. The report indicates that the cruiser reached 134 mph on the wet roads with relatively “light traffic.”
Officer Drake catches up to the Chevy Camaro around the 3-minute, 30-second mark, at which point the Chevy Camaro slams on the brakes to make a right-hand turn. The driver makes another quick right shortly thereafter, even signaling in the process.
The chase continues through residential streets, topping out at over 90 mph. The Chevy Camaro weaves through traffic, and at one point, the rear bumper on the Camaro is cracked.
Later in the pursuit, around the 12-minute, 50-second mark, the officer attempts a Tactical Vehicle Intervention, more popularly known as a PIT maneuver. The tactic is unsuccessful the first time, but the officer tries again later, successfully sending the Chevy Camaro into a spin and ending the chase.
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Surprised by how quick it was for a v6. He lost him in the straightaways.
Holy $hit!
It is amazing that no one died in this pursuit. This is reckless “on both sides”…
Camero now where it belong, junkyard.
Totally irresponsible. 134 in the rain and 90+ in residential neighborhoods over an unreadable paper plate. Should have broken off pursuit once speed reached 90.
JMHO
Exactly! This is reckless pursuit! Not sure why this officer thought he needed to “protect us
from the bad guy”…..I watched the whole video and my palms were sweaty realizing how close both parties came to “meet their maker”….
The haters will pile on the cop. Most of my friends were police officers. These criminals and car thieves need to be stopped one way or another. The woke politicians would have you believe they are just misguided people. It’s time Americans take back our streets from the a-holes and criminals. Dead or alive! Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
Hello Mr. C,
You might feel differently if (you or) a loved one had been innocently killed for collateral
damage. We have to draw some sort of line. This isn’t cut and dried.
sometimes that is what it takes, someone’s family to be hurt by a overzealous cop, Amazing how their opinion changes when it affects them personally.
There are times when a pursuit is necessary…say when chasing a murderer or someone who caused great bodily injury and is a menace or threat to the community, however I believe that there are other ways more sane to catch the Perp than to chase them at high speeds though a city or town or local city streets especially under really dangerous conditions as seen in this video. The fact that a police cruiser could catch up to even a V6 Camaro proves (to me) that the Perp wasn’t the best of drivers and could have lost the patrol cruiser had they been more capable handling the car, at least under these conditions but the police officer saw the need to keep the pursuit going on, and he did eventually catch the Perp.
So the police officer felt the need to chase this nut case through really dangerous conditions and luckily everything ended well, not for the bad guy of course but the officer sure took some chances that eventually paid off but in some instances this could have ended tragically for both parties (police vehicles and police officers are fully capable of causing great injury or worse should they become involved in an accident that might even take out innocent folks too) if the conditions went from bad to worse.
Under all circumstances the bad guy needs to be stopped, justice needs to prevail otherwise why have laws if you are not going to enforce them? However…I feel that this clown in the Camaro could have been taken out at some future point with more thoughtful police actions at some further point in time, going through this chase could have ended terribly for both parties for as they say when chasing Perps, “they’ve got to run out of gas or stop sometime” and when they do, most of the time they can be brought to justice peacefully, and yes there are times when this option isn’t available and you’ve got to go “Full Commando” to take the bad guy out no matter what or how dangerous that might be, but I don’t feel this was one of those conditions that warranted a police chase under these conditions…’nuff said, the bad guys was caught, now let the law take it’s course and hopefully they’ll spend some time behind bars and won’t try this dangerous foolishness’ again.
I feel bad for the camaro, hope it was not wreck bad and if fixable.
WORTHLESS P.O.S.. Deserves a lights out shot!
How does anyone know he did not just rob , rape or kill someone. If police stop chasing only the good honest people will stop.
You’re absolutely right. If someone runs from the cops it’s for a reason other than not wanting a ticket. The person running is responsible for anything that may happen in a pursuit, not the cop.
the entire police force was out there. But he was such a good boy, just ask his parents.