Driver Calls 911 as Police Pursue Him

lovechild · Post by **lovechild** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 2:08 pm

MARYVILLE, Tenn. - It may be right to call 9-1-1 to report someone's chasing you on the highway - but not if it's a sheriff's deputy in pursuit.

Kevin Richard Vowell, 31, of Maryville placed such a call to emergency dispatchers during a high speed chase on U.S. 411 early Sunday morning, Blount County sheriff's spokeswoman Marian O'Briant said.

The incident began when a deputy noticed Vowell driving erratically and signaled for him to stop. Vowell pulled over but then spun his pickup truck around and fled down the highway, with three patrol cars in pursuit.

Vowell then dialed 911 and reported he was being chased but would not stop until he got to Vonore.

"The dispatcher advised him to stop, telling him, 'You're only making it worse,"' O'Briant said.

Police said that after Vowell struck a mailbox and then rammed a cruiser. With a supervisor's permission, one deputy ended the chase by bumping the truck and sending it off the highway. Vowell was treated for minor injuries at the University of Tennessee Medical Center before he was taken to the Blount jail.

Vowell was charged with vehicular assault, drunken driving, felony reckless endangerment and felony evading arrest.

Melicious Scam · Post by **Melicious Scam** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 2:22 pm

sometimes i just forget how smart people really are.

karmakaze · Post by **karmakaze** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 3:13 pm

yeah thats maryville for you. vonore to for that matter.

cutelittlepsycho20 · Post by **cutelittlepsycho20** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 4:09 am

only in Tenn. do we get the "special"crooks.

white_darkness · Post by **white_darkness** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:33 am

Sadly, that's not a new low on the intelligence scale for things I've had to deal with (instigated by other people).

It is sad though.

X · Post by X » Fri Mar 05, 2004 1:32 pm

What a shithead

QueenOfTheFlock · Post by **QueenOfTheFlock** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 2:43 pm

karmakaze wrote:yeah thats maryville for you. vonore to for that matter.

Exactly...sadly, I think MY IQ has lowered a couple points just by living in Maryville.

MahoganyDawn · Post by **MahoganyDawn** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 4:51 pm

I acctually saw the chase tapes on the news the other night. The guy is a freaking moron.

FalseAbsolution · Post by **FalseAbsolution** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 9:13 pm

I've got one better...

This has been like a year or so ago, but someone robbed a bank in Pineville and he did so on foot... the police followed the trail of money and footprints in snow back to his door where they found him counting the money...

True story... people are just that stupid...

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 10:11 am

This just has to be a byproduct of inbreeding.

lovechild · Post by **lovechild** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:53 am

false absolution...now that guy was just stupid...but now i know why everyone thinks those of us living in tennessee has little to no iq...

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 3:34 pm

lovechild wrote:.but now i know why everyone thinks those of us living in tennessee has little to no iq...

iblis wrote:This just has to be a byproduct of inbreeding.

That has something to do with it.

*Does the "hurray! I'm a Yankee!" dance*