High Speed Chase: Police In Hot Pursuit of 16 Wheeler going 60 Miles per Hour On Highway! (549 hits)
TORONTO - A tractor-trailer led police for five hours along several busy Ontario highways Monday before the driver finally pulled over and was arrested. Images of the big rig travelling along the southern Ontario highways was played for hours on television. News helicopters followed the action throughout the morning as police cruisers trailed the truck, which was hauling a flatbed trailer.
The truck was stolen at about 4 a.m. Monday from a Husky gas station in the Niagara area, police said. Police began trailing the truck at 8 a.m., The police vehicles kept their distance throughout the pursuit, and tried to keep other vehicles away from the rig. The truck was headed toward the U.S. border at one point, but it turned around in Niagara Falls and headed back toward Toronto. The driver finally pulled over on the right shoulder near Burlington, where provincial police immediately arrested him. It is not known if the driver stopped because the truck ran out of gas.
Insp. Dave Ross of Ontario Provincial Police says safety was the primary concern as officers monitored the truck on the ground and with helicopters. "The goal was not to pursue and apprehend the stolen truck, it was to make sure everybody was safe," Ross said. "Fortunately it ended as we hoped it would, safely and peacefully for everyone."
