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Police pursue vehicle driving recklessly at high speedsSalem OR

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I-5, Salem, OR

Police pursued a vehicle driving at high speeds and recklessly through major roads in Salem, Oregon. The vehicle was very loud, ran through intersections, and drove dangerously on roads including I-5 and Market Street.

Audio|Source: Salem Police Dispatch
03:37
Transcript:
00:00
Hey from... North on Abrams.
00:08
Approaching Carlton.
00:10
The place is heading out to Portland Road again.
00:21
It's very loud if you really want to jump.
00:28
We're on Portland,
00:29
Portland, high as dense and I think it's coming northbound now.
00:39
Yeah, about three seconds.
00:45
I don't know if I got good spikes, but it's just north of Portland approaching I-5.
00:57
I saw it go over the overpass, possibly to I-5 northbound, but I can't see you from Big Barricos.
01:03
5-640, Salem units at this point, just get to Argrease.
01:12
Yeah, from North Salem, just post at the intersections, please.
01:18
5'5, 6,
01:19
4 and 7,000, you know, right, yeah, yeah,
01:21
yeah.
01:24
Sounds like it might have gone westbound on Blossom, Per County.
01:29
My copy. Then County and Kaiser can find it, get to an artery,
01:33
a large intersection, and post there.
01:39
Salem Unis County has the eastbound blossom high rate of speed.
01:47
Salem Units southbound Cortland Road coming up toward.
01:54
Going back toward you first six fours.
01:57
It's going over the overpass southbound front of the road.
02:04
He's going to go to north.
02:07
He may have just said southbound high five for the road.
02:14
One four says safe from he went south down.
02:21
Again at this point just main arteries.
02:24
It's pretty loud so you'll hear it coming if you're at a main artery.
02:29
He's south down high five. He's left out.
02:37
So there are officers, you can get to Marcus Street, Marcus Street, I-5, Mission Street, Detroit, I-5, Couguil I-5, and just listen to them. This vehicle's super loud.
02:50
One, four, three, I'd take Google I-5.
02:56
There are also drivers on I-5 flashing the light out of him, which he has turned on. He's pretty reckless right now.
03:07
He's probably no one's behind him,
03:09
and he was still driving reckless.
03:16
3G5, he just got off the market, going eastbound in the market, approaching Lancaster.
03:21
Still driving reckless, please.
03:30
I'm going to try to get back to Ward,
03:32
Fischer, or Ward, in Portland, Rives. It sounds like it's going north down again from Market.

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I-5, Salem, OR

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Incident Timeline

  1. Subject Disarmed
  2. Threats Overheard on 911 Call
  3. Coordination and Staging
  4. Police Secure Area
  5. Police Dispatched to Scene
  6. Initial Self-Harm Incident

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