Penske truck takes wild ride through two counties

Video: Moving truck chased through two counties

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Updated 11:12 PM Saturday, May 16, 2009

SPRINGFIELD — If you see a big, bright yellow Penske truck with one, maybe two, blown tires, call police.

The truck, apparently containing stolen merchandise from the local Home Depot, was chased by several law enforcement agencies through two counties Saturday, May 16, before the chase was called off.

“A couple thousand dollars of merchandise from Home Depot, it’s not worth someone’s life,” said Clark County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Elliott.

The chase started in Springfield about 4:56 p.m. when police began pursuing the truck, which was rented in Cincinnati, Elliott said.

The truck’s occupants — reported to be a man and a woman — refused to stop and the police ended its pursuit, he said.

The truck then was spotted eastbound on Interstate 70 by a South Vienna officer, who followed it into Madison County, where London police officers picked up the chase.

The truck headed back into Clark County on U.S. 42, when stop-sticks were deployed by the Ohio State Highway Patrol near South Charleston, Elliott said.

But even with one, possibly two, of the tires blown, the truck reportedly continued.

The sheriff’s office picked up the chase on Plattsburg Road, when the truck — “basically a semi without the trailer,” Elliott said — got onto U.S. 40 and headed back into Springfield.

The chase, he said, was called off. For the sheriff’s office, the chase reached speeds of 70 mph.

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