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Sugar Creek Township in Ohio-- Police dash-cam just released show a 46-year-old Dayton woman driving in reverse on I-675 Friday evening.
Police were dispatched about 5:13 p.m. June 9 to a Ford F-150 driving in reverse on I-675 northbound, near Far Hills Avenue. An officer caught up with the woman south of the Wilmington Pike exit and followed her as she drove backwards until she crashed into cable barriers along the left lane of 675. The officer attempted to block her in with his cruiser but instead of giving up, she drove forward and struck the officer's vehicle and then fled -- in Drive this time.
She went only a short distance more on 675 before heading off the right side of the road, down an embankment and the wrong way onto the on-ramp from Wilmington Pike, as a line of cars were getting onto 675.
The woman sped away from the officer southbound on Wilmington Pike. That's when the officer ended the pursuit just south of Clyo Road, "due to the suspect's danger to the public," a Centerville Police Department release states.
The woman later crashed on Wilmington-Dayton Road at Conference Road, a few miles south of Clyo Road. She was taken to a hospital for treatment. Police have not identified her or indicated the severity of her injuries. The officer was not injured in the earlier collision along I-675.