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DUI Arrest For Woman Leading Police On Unusual Chase

By Neil Shouse, Esq.

It was a ?freeway chase? that was more like a funeral procession involving police cars rather than a wild pursuit with unpredictable twists and turns. This July 6 pursuit lasted 90 minutes from the San Fernando Valley to Kern County and in the end of it all, police arrested 50-year-old Diane Louise Simpson of Reseda on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. According to an Associated Press news report, this was Simpson?s second DUI arrest in about a year. Simpson didn?t give in even after a patrol car, into an hour of pursuing her, bumped her car and spun it around. Her car came to a stop, but she started the engine and continued on, according to news reports. It all began with an illegal U-turn. Officers tried to stop her for what was a minor traffic infraction, but she refused to stop and drove away, the article reported.continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blogger on July 13, 2007 (boomark / email).