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This shit had me stuck in traffic for over an hour on what should have been a 10 minute drive.

 

Man trying to escape from cops struck on I-25 near Fontanero

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October 12, 2010 4:54 PM

MATT STEINER

THE GAZETTE

A 20-year-old man being taken to jail Tuesday in an unmarked police car jumped out as the car traveled down Interstate 25 at about 60 miles per hour and was hit by another car just north of the Fontanero Street exit, Colorado Springs police said.

 

John Winkler of Colorado Springs suffered life threatening injuries, police said.

 

Police said he was arrested on two felony warrants, handcuffed behind his back and seatbelted into the front passenger seat of the police car. A second police officer was in the back seat, police said.

 

The suspect wiggled out of the seatbelt, opened the door and jumped out, police said. He recovered from the fall and was running across the interstate when he was struck by a southbound Subaru Forester, police said.

 

The car that hit him had a shattered windshield and the female driver was taken to a hospital as a precaution, but was not injured, police said. There were no passengers in the car.

 

Police spokesman Sgt. Steve Noblitt said it's within the department's policy to have a suspect sit in the front seat of a vehicle such as the one involved in Tuesday's incident. The vehicle did not have secured back doors such as those in police cruisers that cannot be opened from the inside.

 

The right lane of I-25 and the off ramp were blocked for a few hours as police investigated the 3:15 p.m. incident, and traffic moved slowly through rush hour. All lanes were reopened about 6 p.m.

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