Mount Airy (Town),GA : Suspect charged with DUI after police chase, wreck on November, Friday 1st 2017
Mount Airy (Town), Georgia
A Colquitt County sheriff’s deputy’s patrol car was damaged Friday night during a pursuit that ended on South Main Street, but in the end he got his man, or at least one of them.
The pursuit began about 10 p.m. when Deputy Grant Britt saw a silver Dodge Avenger driving in the center of the roadway on Veterans Parkway. When it failed to maintain lane again near Edwards Motors, he turned on his blue lights for a traffic stop and the Avenger took off.
The Avenger turned onto Overlook Drive, where the deputy said it reached speeds of 60 miles an hour in the 35 mph zone. He said the car ran several stop signs and at one point was going 80 miles an hour.
On 15th Avenue at Second Street Southeast, the undercarriage of Britt’s patrol car struck the pavement, damaging the oil pan, according to his report and that of the Georgia State Patrol, which investigated the pursuit’s aftermath.
The State Patrol said the Avenger was fleeing in a reckless manner and left the roadway of 15th Avenue on the north shoulder. It struck a mailbox and an in-ground garbage can at 23 15th Ave. S.E. before returning to the roadway.
The Avenger came to a final rest at a residence on South Main Street and the driver and a passenger bailed out, law enforcement reports said.
Witnesses directed the deputy to the woods behind Bentley’s Restaurant, where they said the people from the car had run. The deputy ran after them, but Moultrie police officers arriving to back him up found a suspect walking on 13th Avenue nearby.
Kenneth Dailey, 34, of Thomasville, is charged with failure to drive in a single lane, fleeing or attempting to elude, DUI, too fast for conditions and five counts of failure to stop at a stop sign.
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Suspect charged with DUI after police chase, wreck