High speed pursuit of wrong-way driver on Highway 89, Cascade County MT
TrafficLaw enforcement pursued a wrong-way driver on Highway 89 near mile marker 135 in Cascade County, Montana. The driver reached speeds of about 90 miles per hour, violating speed limits and driving in opposite lanes, which endangered public safety.
Audio|Source: Cascade County Public Safety
03:22
Transcript:
00:00
North, Sheriff 81, we're still going 95 through my marker 7.
00:04
Sheriff, 81.
00:13
81, Sheriff 12 on north.
00:15
Just let us know if he starts going in the opposite lane to track.
00:19
Probably 200.
00:20
Still going 90 through a 50.
00:29
North 41 is going in opposite lanes of traffic. You stand for?
00:40
North Sheriff 50, I'm about right in front of them, uh, uh, chripped up.
00:49
North Sheriff 51 going 90 to 40.
00:58
North Sheriff 12, can you contact MHP dispatch and see what our PC for stop is here?
01:10
It was a wrongway driver on the road.
01:15
An instructor plate.
01:24
104, break 50 and 81.
01:27
If he's putting too many people of the public at risk, let's back off a little bit. Obviously we'll still help the trooper, but we don't want to force a potential injury.
01:41
104 looks like you just missed the spike strip.
01:45
All right, this badge, engine 321.
01:48
Good.
01:50
Engine 321 is en route.
01:54
Do exact flag, you go Portable Night.
01:57
Portable Night.
02:00
You can show me on Team 87 Moroni Dam Road.
02:04
Denver.
02:07
Norrisurf 82, I'm 1080 from that.
02:10
Temper 8,000.
02:17
Sheriff 51 continuing E5 to mile marker 135.
02:24
104.
02:30
And Norris, Sheriff 12, can you let Lewis and Clark County know what's heading in their jurisdiction?
02:39
10,4.
02:45
North Sheriff 81.
02:47
The Eighty-nine through a 45-mile zone through Fort Shaw.
02:56
North Sheriff 81, there's a school bus ahead.
03:00
North to ALS1. AOLF one.
03:09
We're on, Gene.
03:18
8150, let's back off him a little bit.
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