Deputy Abandons Chase to Save Lives of Hit-and-Run Crash Victims

Deputy Abandons Chase to Save Lives of Hit-and-Run Crash Victims
Isaiah D. Degroot Racine County Sheriff’s Department
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A Racine County deputy made a life-saving choice to let a hit-and-run driver escape on foot after a vehicle pursuit ended in a collision on Sunday, Jan. 14.

A Sheriff’s deputy in an unmarked car was on patrol on Wisconsin on Highway 31 at Newman Road, Mount Pleasant, late Sunday morning when she saw a driver in a Toyota Sequoia SUV behaving suspiciously, The Journal Times reported.