A woman driving a red Dodge Ram reportedly struck an Arizona state trooper’s patrol car early Saturday morning, October 24, then continued down a Phoenix freeway despite losing the pickup’s right-front wheel.
The truck made it to a Circle K gas station near Interstate 17 and Bethany Home Road, where video shows troopers ordering the woman out of the badly damaged vehicle. Sparks were visible beneath the pickup as it approached the intersection, and smoke later rose from the vehicle after it stopped near what appeared to be underground fuel storage access points.
During the confrontation, the woman told officers she had six children and insisted she hadn’t done anything wrong. Troopers eventually removed her from the pickup and took her into custody…