i 394 coming from downtown minneapolis we've 
got a wrong way driver it was first reported  
by local news anchor jason derucha who said he 
had his own very close call with the vehicle  
police working urgently to catch up to this 2020 
jeep wrangler with no tail lights unfortunately  
this did result in a deadly crash we'll give 
you a warning before we get to that part which  
is at the end of the video but police are 
following alongside the vehicle and put a  
spotlight on it to try to enhance visibility for 
oncoming drivers our policy is to generally not  
publish fatal crashes unless they involve 
particularly egregious driver conduct or  
considerable news this qualifies in both areas 
there was considerable local coverage of this  
and of course driving the wrong way on the freeway 
possibly drunk clearly egregious egregious driver  
behavior and seeing real world videos like this 
might help us all become more aware and informed  
drivers ourselves again you can see those tail 
lights off traveling at freeway speeds thankfully  
that car was able to get out of the way there at 
the last minute but not a particularly easy to  
see vehicle even with the police following along 
with that spotlight we've posted several videos of  
wrong way drivers on minnesota highways and have 
a dedicated playlist at the end of this video  
so you can see for yourself what these drivers 
are really like and recently we posted video  
of a state trooper trying to stop a wrong way 
driver by bumping them and some people apparently  
thought the officer was out of line so this is 
a video which shows what happens if you just  
can't quite stop a wrong-way driver in time 
we were going to do analysis of the force  
and vehicles involved and indeed the larger mass 
of the jeep played a role against a smaller car  
and also the car was older and received a marginal 
safety rating from the iihs and the jeep is much  
newer and has good safety ratings across the board 
but maybe the bigger story here is the basic facts  
a 20 year old not even old enough to drink legally 
is suspected of drunk driving ignoring police  
causing a deadly crash and then when confronted 
about the death he allegedly told the troopers  
sorry bro the 20 year old suspect with an 
address out of saint anthony was then able to  
post a hundred fifty thousand dollar bond and has 
retained a private attorney looking at the video  
in front of you you can see one squad car staying 
with the vehicle lighting it up and a second squad  
working to quickly overtake them now a warning 
the crash video will start shortly we try to post  
safety video and facts and let you draw your own 
conclusions a quick thank you to paul bloom and  
the fox nine team which was first to note the 
20 year old suspect posting a hundred fifty  
thousand dollar bond and allegedly admitting he 
had ten drinks and apparently blew a point two  
bac and it was wcco's jason derucha 
who first broke news of the crash  
and captured some of the photos the original 
source for these traffic camera videos is the  
minnesota department of transportation mn safety 
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any governmental agency we're just volunteers 
trying to promote public safety and education