The morning of Feb. 17, an Indiana State Police trooper using a hand-held radar device to catch speeders on I-69 clocked a Chevrolet pickup going 83 in the 65-mph zone through Bloomington.
What followed was an 89-mile high-speed chase where both vehicles traveled a distance the wrong way on I-69. It ended after a rear-end crash in Pike County when a trooper performed a maneuver with his car that forced the truck to spin and stop.
The pursuit begins
At 9:40 a.m. that Tuesday, lights flashing and sirens on, the trooper sped after the pickup in the middle lane starting near the Second Street exit but the driver didn’t pull over.
Instead, he began driving faster. So did the officer, who contacted an ISP dispatcher to report he was behind a fleeing truck with a Kentucky license traveling on the highway at 100 mph…