“You almost killed your kid, do you understand me?” the trooper is heard saying on dash cam footage.
JOINER, Ark. — Shocking video shows a chase involving Arkansas State Police end in a crash — with a small child emerging from the wrecked car and running toward officers.
The dash cam footage of the chase in rural Joiner, Ark., shows a Dodge Charger refusing to pull over for the officer, who eventually uses a PIT maneuver. The Charger then veers off the road and rolls over an embankment.
After several minutes, the back door of the upside-down Charger opens. The officer yells at the driver to come out with her hands up. She responds, “My baby’s coming out first!”
A toddler then runs away from the car and toward the officers.
“Come stay right here. You’re OK, come right here baby,” the officer says to the child. With the child safe, he yells again at the driver. “Is it just you? Why did you run from me with a baby in the car?”
The trooper orders her to exit the vehicle and crawl to him. A short time later, the child’s mother emerges from the car and struggles toward the troopers.
“That was the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen,” the trooper says. “You could’ve killed your own child.”
With her handcuffed, he says he clocked her going 80 miles per hour when the speed limit is only 55. The driver says she tried to get away because she doesn’t have a license.
“That’s why you ran from me? You ran from me because you don’t have a license? You almost killed your kid, do you understand me?” the trooper says.
The child appeared to be unhurt and was released into the custody of another adult at the scene, according to reports. The driver reportedly faces a slew of charges, including reckless driving and endangering the welfare of a minor.