What started as a routine call about a reckless driver quickly turned into one of the more chaotic scenes Central Texas highways have seen in recent memory. On Wednesday morning, a garbage truck driver led law enforcement on a chase stretching more than 30 miles along Interstate 35, barreling through multiple counties before eventually being stopped in Austin.
The Hays County Sheriff’s Office and the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed the arrest of the driver, identified as Devante Dunn. By the time it was all over, six vehicles had been struck, four people were injured, and nearly every major law enforcement agency between New Braunfels and Austin had been pulled into the pursuit.
The whole ordeal kicked off around 8 a.m. when someone called in a reckless driver operating a trash truck on Farm-to-Market Road 306. When a Comal County Sheriff’s Office deputy tried to make a routine traffic stop, Dunn ran a red light and hit another vehicle. That was just the opening act…