High-speed chase started in Frankfort

By Kayleigh Zyskowski Published:

Kentucky State Police arrested a woman after a high-speed chase that began when a trooper spotted her license plate near the state Game Farm along U.S. 60 in Frankfort, according to police.

The state trooper ran her plates and realized she had an outstanding warrant and was driving on suspended license. However he couldn’t confirm her identity until she was in Scott County where he at tempted to complete a traffic stop. That is when Margaret Anderson, 66, allegedly attempted to evade the trooper.

Anderson reached speeds up to 90 mph before police pulled her over in Fayette County after she sideswiped a cruiser and ran through Scott and Woodford counties, says Trooper Ron Turley.

She faces charges of wanton endangerment, fleeing police, operating a vehicle on a suspended license and failure to own insurance, Turley says. Police say they pulled her over around 8:45 p.m. Anderson is lodged at Fayette County Detention Center.

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  • Once the trooper determined who the deranged woman was by running the license plate, what purpose was it to risk everybody else's lives who were on those roads that day? She wasn't wanted for a capital crime, so what was urgency once she started fleeing? They could have picked her up later. For the police to be chasing someone on a multi-county, high speed car chase for nothing more than an outstanding warrant and a suspended licence is by definition, wanton endangerment of the public. "In Kentucky, a person is guilty of wanton endangerment in the first degree when, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life, someone wantonly engages in conduct which creates a substantial danger of death or serious physical injury to another." There are numerous instances where these things end very poorly, with innocent people being hurt or killed. And for what? To apprehend a woman who was driving on a suspended license? Maybe we should rethink the rules of engagement for conducting a high speed chase for only misdemeanor charges. Somebody could have been seriously killed.