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Police used stop sticks to help end a pursuit that concluded with a crash in Pittsfield Township early Thursday morning.
At 1:37 a.m., a Saline Police Department officer stopped a 2002 GMC Envoy at Michigan Avenue near Austin Road, suspecting the driver may have been impaired. When the police officer approached the driver’s side door, the driver accelerated and headed west toward Saline Township, according to Saline Police Chief Marlene Radzik.
Scanner audio files detail the pursuit. At one point, the driver was clocked going 98 mph on Michigan Avenue as he headed west. He slowed down when he turned on Feldkamp Road and then Klager Road, before he returned to Michigan Avenue and headed back east toward town at speeds of up to 95 mph. Scanner audio captured the officer asking the dispatcher to have an officer from Pittsfield Police or the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office utilize stop sticks as the vehicle sped back toward Saline. Michigan State Police troopers used the stop sticks on Michigan Avenue near the west-end party store and scored a “hit,” damaging and deflating the tires. The driver slowed down as rubber fell off the damaged tires but continued east and Saline Police continued the pursuit.
The driver crashed the vehicle into a ditch near Wapiti Way around 1:50 a.m.
The driver, a 35-year-old man from Romulus, fled on foot through a nearby wooded area.
A passenger, a 28-year-old woman from Detroit, was apprehended by a Saline police officer and she was cooperative. Police caught and arrested the man in the wooded area, Radzik said.
Both subjects sustained injuries in the crash. They were transported by ambulance to the hospital to treat the injuries that were not life-threatening, Radzik said.
The investigation is ongoing and the Saline Police Department will seek charges from the prosecutor’s office for fleeing and eluding, resisting and obstructing and operating while impaired, according to Radzik.
Sunny, with a high of 71 and low of 40 degrees. Sunny in the morning, clear overnight.
No, the motion to approve & adopt was made by Ceo, seconded by Lesch. If you're interested in an unedited/unredacted version of Monday's meeting, the link to the video recording of our budget work session and regular meeting is provided below -
Thank you to those Council members who support the citizens and the Rec Center.
Please note, the rec center now requires 1/3 to almost 1/2 of its operations be funded by the City of Saline taxpayers. Approximately 10% of our City population uses the facility, while 2/3 of the members are non-resident. It’s time the non City residents of the Saline community pays its fair share.
What happened with the funding for the needed repairs at the Recreation Center? With all of the programs and community services provided at the Recreation Center, the nearby communities spending tens of millions of dollars to build new Recreation Centers, and the number of members/high usage for the Center and part
Name all the municipalities of 10,000 people that have their own Rec Center with a pool. I'm generally curious.
Saline Area Schools needs to take over the Rec Center with a Rec creation millage and maybe a short bond issue, too, for improvements.
The mayor and city council love to spend taxpayer dollars frivolously. More and more $$$ into the rec center, that needs to stop. We still don’t have drinkable water and yet the city keeps raising rates. Can’t speak for everyone but I would much rather have clean water than a “lazy river!”
Sorry, Toby Crotty. Do not align to your assessment or thoughts. While nearby communities are spending tens of millions of dollars to build Recreation Centers (because of their value to citizens and communities), Saline is in the fortunate position of already having a very good facility in place which now needs to
You avoided my main point. The rec center is a nice amenity for those that use it. However, it is not a necessity. Clean safe water that we pay exorbitant rates for IS a necessity for EVERYONE!
The unprofessional behavior while in the supposed role of being a journalist when talking to that protester is ridiculous. The incorrect information and “facts” you spewed during the conversation are just par for the course. Thanks for showing up!
I agree with your comments about this journalist. I use the word journalist loosely here, as a journalist should be bringing forth the views of the people they are interviewing, not bringing their obvious bias into every forced conversation.
I understand the right 4 peaceful protests, why expose children to hate and show disrespect to our flag, what is that teaching the children. As a Korean Veteran I oppose anyone disrespecting our countries FLAG, shame on the protesters,