Chase by police reaches 24 km/h
NZPA-AP Bellefonte Unlike the movies, in which the police chase bad guys at top speed, a Bellefonte, Pennsylvannia, police car never left low gear while an officer tried to get a fugitive to stop — and the fugitive got away. The police car and the old Allis-Chalmers tractor the fugitive was driving reached a top speed of 24km/h on the more than three-kilometre pursuit on Friday. Finally, the driver of the farm tractor pulled on to a field and fled away, leaving behind frozen food, cigarettes, beer and a chainsaw.
"This is definitely highranking in bizarreness. It’s not often you have that much trouble pulling over a tractor,” a police dispatcher, Eric Naylor, said.
The police had no leads in the case, a second dispatcher, Rich Kelley, said yesterday.
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Press, 27 February 1989, Page 12
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