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Police pursue wrong-way driver who crashes and fleesColumbus OH

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S Eureka Ave & Safford Ave, Columbus, OH 43204

Police chased a vehicle traveling the wrong way at high speed through several streets in Grove City, Ohio. The suspect crashed near Safford and Eureka avenues, exited the vehicle, and fled on foot. Officers searched the area for a male suspect wearing a tan hoodie. The search continued without success at the time of the report.

Audio|Source: Grove City Police, Franklin County Sheriff Dispatch West
07:21
Transcript:
00:00
we're going to be wrong way.
00:02
We're going northbound in the southboundly in Farrell, on Paris.
00:06
You open his door to town, so we're going to go, we're going to be east.
00:10
Fremont, excuse me.
00:14
That's her stay on Earth.
00:20
and now we'll be going to go south away.
00:24
What do you know?
00:29
See if you can let Zee Pizzolino and Asper Soper, we're circling the area.
00:37
We're going to be going into an alley just north of Sullivan off the wind.
00:44
We're heading westbound.
00:45
Now we're going northbound for the alley between Wayne and
00:52
Street,
00:53
Wayne in Texas, northbound.
00:56
He's dancing all over the place.
00:58
We're struck for the area, looking for some of the trail.
01:03
Copy Wayne and South Rica.
01:09
searching free ma'am.
01:11
We're still going through the alley.
01:14
We have sparks.
01:16
We're doing about 35 through the alley in northbound.
01:20
I copy.
01:26
Where do you best out on Palmetto?
01:31
We're going southbound.
01:34
We're going southbound.
01:37
I can't be south, I don't know, there we go.
01:45
Approximately 70 right now.
01:47
There's Rappics still a long way.
01:49
It's a tight road to everybody's telling it's not going to be a district.
01:57
All right, just ran Sullivan.
02:00
He'll be going southbound, still on Eureka, the wrong way.
02:05
He's pulling ahead of me and I got three questions.
02:09
Copy, Urean Solomon.
02:10
Yeah.
02:15
All right, he south past Bavard.
02:22
Where do you crash out?
02:25
Just south of Safford on Eureka.
02:27
He's out of the car bailed.
02:29
I don't know where he went.
02:30
I copy. Southbound Safford at Eureka.
02:38
Copy.
02:39
Copy.
02:41
I'm southbound Safford.
02:44
I'll set up there.
02:47
Okay.
02:49
I think we...
02:50
I'm not sure where we went on the area.
02:55
He looked like a (description withheld), he had a tan hoodie on,
02:58
store a pants.
03:04
Male, (description withheld), tan hoodie,
03:06
a lot of pants.
03:11
There we got Robert's room.
03:17
Sorry, free.
03:18
Who have me? Uh, Crandtack.
03:21
The intersection of that noise.
03:29
Saffer and South Eureka?
03:33
We stop Saffer.
03:35
We stop Saffer.
03:41
Okay, Saffer.
03:44
Saffer.
03:46
Hi.
03:51
Through that, I'm in the area.
03:54
You were getting on, I'm speaking your own staff.
04:00
Oh, you see, was advised for the child, not out.
04:09
Yeah, I will think.
04:12
Copy.
04:14
Okay.
04:21
That's 151 thing.
04:29
Probably.
04:30
304, you can slow everybody down on that.
04:33
I'm not looking for the suspect right now.
04:35
I'm making contact with the homeowner whose truck got hit.
04:39
My copy. Any cars on route, you guys can go ahead and slow it down.
04:45
The three guns here.
04:54
So we can release the channel.
04:57
The pane is released at 132.
04:59
One of these five photos back in my city.
05:07
Copy.
05:13
I'll put in here.
05:16
Hi.
05:22
Before either (description withheld) or (description withheld) nail with a hood pull up on a tan, hoodie, or coat.
05:32
Two, do you have a black vest on with a camera boots, maybe?
05:40
Anyway, what you got something?
05:43
We just said right now was camera producing a green off the street walking south from (street withheld).
05:53
You probably wear this up.
05:59
That was wrong.
06:01
He said it in towards me on to some of that amount in (street withheld).
06:07
Definitely here.
06:14
As well.
06:16
Okay,
06:18
I've been down in (street withheld).
06:20
Okay,
06:25
sir. Okay, third.
06:31
Two, two, two, three one,
06:33
nurse,
06:34
hey, my wife.
06:44
Probably.
06:50
Either male,
06:51
(description withheld) or light skin blackmail.
07:04
Look like he had a tan jacket on with the hood pulled up.
07:08
I didn't see his pants.
07:14
Any branch description?
07:19
All right, we didn't hear him.

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