Juvenile driver hits speeds above 120 mph on I-70 during police chase
The driver hit stop sticks deployed by the Idaho Springs Police Department before losing control of the vehicle, according to the Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office

Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office/Courtesy photo
The Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office says it stopped a juvenile driver who hit speeds above 120 mph Monday, April 21, in a high-speed pursuit on Interstate 70.
Around 7:30 p.m. Monday, deputies were involved in the pursuit of a vehicle that was associated with a domestic violence incident in Summit County, the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook.
The vehicle, which had eluded law enforcement in Summit County, was identified by license plate reader technology, known as a Flock camera, in Georgetown and was then located by deputies traveling east on County Road 308 near Lawson, the post states.
As deputies followed in a marked patrol car, the vehicle accelerated to 80 mph in a 45 mph zone, then entered I-70 east at mile marker 235, immediately accelerating to speeds exceeding 110 mph, according to the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office.
The vehicle at times traveled in the express lane and at one point reached speeds of 126 mph, the post states. It avoided stop sticks — devices law enforcement officers sometimes use to stop vehicles during a pursuit — at mile marker 238, but hit stop sticks deployed by the Idaho Springs Police Department near mile marker 241, according to the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office.
After hitting the stop sticks, the driver of the vehicle lost control, traveling through the express lane, across all eastbound lanes, through the median between the interstate and the on-ramp, across both lanes of the on-ramp and across both lanes of the frontage road, County Road 314, the post states. The vehicle reportedly came to a rest in the ditch on the south side of the frontage road.
Four of the five occupants of the vehicle were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and the fifth occupant was arrested on multiple warrants before being transported to the Summit County jail, according to the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office.
The driver of the vehicle was a juvenile and the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office wrote in the post that it would be working with the District Attorney’s Office to determine appropriate charges, the post states.

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