Crime
Tucker Road car chase ends in crash and arrest
…if Wicker had pulled over he,”…would have received a citation for a suspended driver’s license.”
A car chase ends in a crash on Tucker Road on Sunday morning.
“Just before 10 a.m. this morning, Deputy David Culbertson met a black Buick Regal northbound on Tucker Road at a high rate of speed. Deputy Culbertson turned around and got behind the vehicle, engaged lights and siren attempting to stop the vehicle. The vehicle, instead of stopping, sped up,” said Sheriff Martin Pace in a live report with the Vicksburg Daily News. “Several blocks down the road it actually side-swiped an oncoming vehicle and then, in about the 1700 block the fleeing vehicle apparently became disabled, pulled to the side of the road.”
The Chevy Truck that was struck by the fleeing Buick Regal: Photo by David Day
The vehicle it side-swiped, a Chevy truck, had medium damage but was undrivable.
According to Sheriff Pace, the driver of the black Buick Regal still refused to get out of the vehicle, locking himself inside. “The Deputy had to forcibly shatter a window to unlock the vehicle to get the driver out.”
The black Buick Regal on the side of the road. Photo by David Day
Culbertson then took Jacob Allen Wicker, 23, of Warren County into custody. Wicker will be charged with a multitude of traffic violations and felony eluding.
Paramedics were dispatched to the scene of the accident on Tucker Road just south of Freetown Road to check on the parties involved. No injuries were reported.
Sheriff Pace went on to explain that if Wicker had pulled over he,”…would have received a citation for a suspended driver’s license. It never makes any sense to flee law enforcement. It heightens the risk to the public, it increases the charges the person is going to have filed. If he had pulled over to the side, he would have probably received a warning for the speed and he would have received a citation for the suspended driver’s license.”
Wicker is currently being held in Warren County and will go to Justice Court to see the judge in the morning. Felony eluding can be punished by up to 5 years in prison and up to a $5000 fine. Had the driver of the pickup truck been seriously injured, the law demands a mandatory 3 to 20-year sentence. If the failure to yield had resulted in the death of another, the law demands a mandatory 5 to 40-year sentence.
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