Reckless driver hits building and flees in Gary, Gary IN
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TrafficAs discussed during the dispatch call, police pursued a gray Chevy Impala driven by a woman who reportedly struck a building and fled near Colfax Street and West 5th Avenue in Gary, Indiana. Officers tracked the car traveling through nearby streets as multiple units responded to assist.
Audio|Heard on: Lake County Public Safety
Listen to dispatch call
03:4
Transcript:
00:00
You're en route to that call for that reckless driver.
00:03
Copy.
00:08
As they're turning from Fifth onto Colfax now, so like we're heading south on Colfax.
00:18
You run in a-chip log for (name withheld), please.
00:23
Copy.
00:28
I'm there, advising they just hit a building divider.
00:35
Got it.
00:40
(name withheld), did you make contact?
00:46
Traffic to ten.
00:51
Did you make contact?
00:54
Affirmative.
01:00
Two (number withheld).
01:02
Not too much like.
01:05
Copy.
01:09
Do I have another unit that can assist? Sixteen oh five.
01:11
The complainant is stating that this female hit a building and then drove off again.
01:21
Whose are all zero five?
01:29
We're heading north on Colfax from Twenty Fifth.
01:42
1513, what was the driver's direction of travel?
01:48
They're heading east on Fifth.
01:52
16 to 5 just as they were heading northbound on Colfax from 25th.
01:56
Gray Chevy Impala, female driver wearing a white coat and red shoes.
02:02
Might want to let the bakeriness know.
02:06
Baker units copy.
02:12
Sixteen ten copies might please and robbery enough.
02:17
Sixteen oh four copies.
02:27
We're just sitting about Fifth Avenue now.
02:33
Okay, so I copied that she was traveling east, but I'm talking where they at.
02:40
Zero five just advised that they just hit Fifth from Colfax.
02:48
Sixteen oh five, you are checking flop.
02:51
They're heading southbound on Hobart from Fourth Ave.
03:00
Now they advise that they're heading towards looks like they're going westbound on Fourth from Hobie.
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Location mentioned:
Colfax St & W 5th Ave, Gary, IN 46406
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