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Old March 1st 17, 11:10 PM posted to alt.louisiana, soc.culture.african.american, rec.autos.driving,alt.survival, sac.politics
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Default Escaped Inmate's Flying Car Crash Looks Right Out Of A Movie

The crash is so spectacular it looks like a Hollywood stunt --
but escaped inmate Kevonte Austin is facing very real
consequences.

Austin, 18, managed to avoid serious injury on Tuesday when the
stolen pickup truck he was driving went airborne during a police
chase in Dixie Inn, Louisiana, Webster Parish Sheriff Gary
Sexton told the Huffington Post.

The truck landed on an occupied car in a parking lot.
Miraculously, the woman in the other vehicle was not injured as
well.

“We are all surprised it turned out as well as it did,” Sexton
said.

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The trouble started when a sheriff’s deputy pulled over the
driver of the truck for speeding ? with Austin sitting in the
passenger seat. While the driver spoke with the deputy outside
the vehicle as a “decoy,” Austin moved behind the wheel and sped
off, according to Sexton.

The suspect, who weeks earlier had ditched a work-release
program after his shift, then led the law on a 50-mile pursuit
at speeds up to 115 miles an hour, running several officers off
the road, the sheriff said.

While trying to avoid a roadblock, Austin lost control of the
truck, the sheriff said. He plunged down, then up a grass
divider, hurtling through the air until the pickup plowed into
the parked car.

The drama didn’t end there. Austin ran to another occupied car
and tried to grab a woman before he was apprehended, the sheriff
said. As of Wednesday afternoon, he remained in a Webster Parish
jail charged with attempted first-degree murder of a police
officer, aggravated flight, attempted car-jacking and possession
of a stolen vehicle. He would be transferred to his previous
facility in Caddo Parish ? where he was doing time for car theft
and a probation violation ? after he was fully processed, Sexton
said.

The original driver, 23-year-old Durioki Hawkins, faces charges
of harboring a fugitive and possession of a stolen vehicle.

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crash-looks-right-out-of-a-movie_us_58b6d4b1e4b0780bac2ee6a0

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