Ingham County Sheriff’s Deputies had a busy Thanksgiving evening dealing with icy roads and wrong-way drivers. Between 11:30 p.m. and 4:30 a.m., deputies were dispatched to assist with four separate wrong-way driving calls.
At 11:30 deputies were dispatched to a vehicle traveling north in the southbound lanes of US127 in Jackson County nearing the south Ingham County border. Deputies were disregarded when Jackson County advised they had the car stopped
At 3 a.m., dispatch advised a vehicle was traveling east in the westbound lanes of 496 near Cedar St., but the vehicle was not located.
At 3:15 a.m. deputies were dispatched to a vehicle traveling south in the northbound lanes of US127 near I96. Ingham Deputies were unable to locate the vehicle. Jackson County was able to get the vehicle stopped.
At 4:30 a.m. Deputies were alerted to a vehicle traveling south in the northbound lanes of US127. Deputies were able to get the vehicle stopped near Covert Rd. The vehicle struck an Ingham County Sheriff’s patrol car and continued southbound in the northbound lanes. Jackson County deployed a tire deflation device which deflated all 4 tires of the suspect vehicle. The suspect, a 37-year-old St. Johns man was lodged at the Ingham County Jail. The investigation will be turned over to the Ingham County Prosecutors Office for possible charges of reckless driving, flee and elude, and resisting and obstructing. No one was injured in the incident. There was minor damage to an Ingham County patrol car.
