High speed chase ends with crash


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Updated: 12/25/2011 4:34 pm | Published: 12/24/2011 9:05 pm
Reported by: Cristina Rendon
DRAPER, Utah (ABC 4 News) - A Salt Lake man caused quite a scare on the road after he was spotted driving recklessly.

Luis Alfonso Ramirez is accused of leading police on a high speed chase while driving on the wrong side of the road.

According to unified police, Ramirez was reported by an eyewitness to have been passed out in his car in a parking lot Friday night. Police received another phone call minutes later, which reported Ramirez of speeding and swerving. Officers said Ramirez was driving westbound on Bangerter Highway. Ramirez quickly made a U-turn and started to driving against oncoming traffic when he realized he was being followed.

"Our biggest concern was he was going the wrong way on Bangerter highway, being such a busy road," Sgt. Braegger, of Draper PD, said.

Ramirez then struck a parked car while traveling at 60 miles per hour. The car was parked in the shoulder lane of the highway because it had broke down.

Jeremy Gero, the owner of the car, said he had just crossed the street to purchase a parts for the repair. Gero said if he had been repairing his car, he may have been hit.

"I'm pretty sure he would have hit me, and I would have been hospitalized or been dead," Gero said.

After Ramirez was released from jail, he reportedly urinated on a cop car. Ramirez is in the country illegally. His case will be handed over to immigration officials.

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Nunn24 - 12/25/2011 6:06 PM
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I respect and appreciate ABC 4 Utah for acknowledging that this individual is an illegal alien. The Deseret News, and the Salt Lake Tribune, is suppressing this information. Residency status of persons who harm Americans in any way is very much pertinent information, and here's why: We accept the NECESSARY risk of driving on the same roadway as persons who likewise have a right to be on the roads with us. But we do NOT accept the entirely UNNECESSARY risk of driving on the roadway with individuals who have NO right to be ANYWHERE NEAR Utah (and who are more likely to be bad drivers besides since they have a basic disdain for our laws to begin with). Again: it is an UNNECESSARY risk. This is why it ALWAYS is worse when an American is harmed in any way by an illegal alien. What great luck that innocent lives were not lost in this instance and that as a result, many family's Christmases were not spoiled for the rest of their lives. Again, ABC 4 Utah, thank you for your service, and for your journalistic integrity.

pennyaline - 12/24/2011 11:08 PM
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Oh my gosh, where shall I begin? Let's just jump in here in the middle, okay? Here we go: "According to unified police, Ramirez was reported by an eyewitness to have been passed out in his car in a parking lot Friday night." Unified Police should be capitalized, honey. And it's "reported by an eyewitness to be passed out in his car...," not "reported by an eyewitness to have been passed out in his car..." yakkata, yakkata, yakkata, prattle, prattle, prattle... "Police received another phone call minutes later, which reported Ramirez of speeding and swerving. Officers said Ramirez was driving westbound on Bangerter Highway. Ramirez quickly made a U-turn and started to driving against oncoming traffic when he realized he was being followed." "Which reported Ramirez of speeding and swerving"? "Started to driving"? "'Our biggest concern was he was going the wrong way on Bangerter highway, being such a busy road,' Sgt. Braegger, of Draper PD, said." I realize that was a direct quote, but when a quote is that disjointed, just leave it out. It didn't need to be said, anyway. "Ramirez then struck a parked car while traveling at 60 miles per hour." Sixty miles per hour. Spell it out. "The car was parked in the shoulder lane..." The shoulder of the road is not a lane. It is simply the shoulder. "...of the highway because it had broke down." Because it had WHAT, honey? "Because it had BROKE down"? Really?
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