Suspects in a GMC Yukon SUV recently managed to give Arkansas State Police the slip in a high-speed chase that topped 130 mph. Footage of the chase was posted online, showing the moment that the SUV managed to evade police.
The video is just over eight-minutes long, and shows the chase in its entirety as captured by the dash cam in the lead police officer’s patrol car.
As the video gets under way, we see a GMC Yukon enter the highway ahead of the police cruiser. The Yukon starts to accelerate away from the cruiser, and before long, the officer is traveling at more than 120 mph. The officer hits the lights and siren as the SUV slices between traffic and accelerates down the freeway.
Around the two-minute, 10-second mark, we see the GMC Yukon abruptly veer off down an exit, with police close behind. The SUV blasts across an intersection and rejoins the freeway, while the police officer slows down in order to avoid a possible collision at the red light.
The cruiser manages to quickly catch up with the Yukon as it once again travels at triple-digit speeds. The SUV exits again around the three-minute mark, with police once again in hot pursuit. In a dramatic moment, the driver in the SUV pulls a U-turn right in front of the police cruiser, and the two vehicles collide in the process. The driver then weaves through a car wash around the four-minute mark.
The SUV later takes off into a residential zone around the four-minute, 20-second mark. The officer in pursuit is heard relaying updates on where the SUV is headed to dispatch as the GMC Yukon speeds through the sleepy residential streets. Around the five-minute, 40-second mark, the GMC blows through a stop sign, while the police officer in pursuit applies the brakes, giving the driver in the SUV the opportunity needed to escape.
Check out the full video here:
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We really need to implement more no high-speed chase policies (with some exceptions for violent criminal pursuit, etc.)…fall back once you get the plate (the damage also easily marks the perp’s car)…the amount of danger posed to a huge population over what started as a speeding violation is not worth it. Driver prob either drunk or had drugs/weapon, and was motivated to run…pick him up later, don’t risk killing an entire family at an intersection.
As performance capability of normal cars increases, there’s only going to be more of these. There are countless other aspects of our legal/criminal systems that need cleaned up to keep criminals from repeat offending…which should be the focus…the point is that we can make huge strides in law enforcement without the risk of high-speed crashes trying to catch one guy.
You don’t know who is driving. You cannot arrest a tag number, The owner’s lawyer will have it dismissed immediately and then file a suit against the officer and the department. “Pick him up later” is worthless. Since I retired, two traffic offences led to two chases and two bodies in the vehicles within 80 miles of my house.
In all likelihood the Yukon was stolen, possibly carjacked, maybe to be used for another crime later. The driver could kill somebody without any police presence and walk away. The politicians who agree with you can only lower crime stats by ignoring crime.
The owner was a fuc#ing idiot.
Came back to post this update because it was exactly on point…just this past week, two people I went to high school with and another person were killed in a head on collision, with another seriously injured…police were chasing a thief in a stolen car, leading to a high speed crash.
There are three more people dead (and multiple families surely devastated right before Christmas)) due to a failed police chase in traffic. Police arrested the thief (who lived), and he’ll probably rot in prison, but for those that didn’t like my original comment, how was this chase worth it? Three lives plus suffering to recover a now-destroyed stolen car. Just imagine if people you knew died in the chase…
For clarity, I’m not putting the blame on the cops, but rather I’m criticizing the chase policies…of course the blame should reside with the degenerate criminals.
We need better decisions on chase policies, and these criminals need to get prosecuted appropriately when they are picked up for lower-level crimes…then these tragic stories would be more rare…police chasing criminals through populated areas is just too common due in large part to soft on crime prosecutors and judges giving the wrong people a break.
Ask Milwaukee how that worked out. Crime, especially car theft, got way out of control because they knew that nobody would pursue.
Why not use available onstar technology?
This is more about Arkansas cops than the Yukon .
Anyone caught stealing vehicles and running from police should have their feet and hands amputated so they can never drive a car or a bicycle ever again! You’d see auto thefts drop to zero real fast! Sounds extreme? Hell yes but tough $hit!
Give police the technology to kill engines in vehicles they are pursuing. Sounds impossible? We sent people to the moon. It would have to be radio controlled to a frequency that would disable the vehicle.
I can’t help but wonder how long it would be before thieves, car jackers and kidnappers would be taking advantage of this technology.
Good day folks I just want to bring something up. No where in this country do we have a autobahun where you can open up a car and see what it will do. So why do we build cars that can blow the doors off the police. In the name of safety we got to limit the speed of vehicles. Nothing good comes from cars that runs at high speed and when the driver has no formal driving skills at high speed driving then it has disaster wrote all over it. Now at some point an owner will want to see what the car will do. How would you feel if your love one was killed in an accident when the other driver was driving reckless at high speeds. I can tell you after 44 years and in public safety I can say i’v seen my fair share of deceased people in vehicles. Driving high speeds should be limited to drag strip and racetracks.
Absolutely correct 100% Keep the racing and high speed driving on the racetracks. Now if we can only convince the drunks and drug abusers off the highways we’d only have to deal with the distracted drivers. It’s probably impossible but it’s worth a try? Keep your head on a swivel and you just might make it to 70. I have and I used to race. On a track.
What’s under the hood in that Yukon.
Did anyone else think the Trooper turned left down a side street while the Yukon was still probably in sight in front of him?