Latest deadly police chase: ‘We’re just killing too many innocent people’
By: Nick Blizzard, Laura Bischoff, & John Bedell, daytondailynews.com
Nearly half of the traffic deaths this year in two of the area’s most populous counties happened in a 31-hour stretch this weekend, ending with a double fatality in a wreck involving an RTA bus and another deadly police chase.
The fiery Trotwood Sunday afternoon crash killed two teens and seriously injured a third when the vehicle fleeing a traffic stop reached speeds more than 100 miles per hour. The crash has renewed questions about statewide standards for police pursuits.
The deaths of Kyren Wright, 18, of Dayton, and an unidentified Trotwood-Madison High School student helped make this past weekend’s seven fatalities on roads in Montgomery and Greene counties the deadliest combined for those areas since at least 2014, according to Ohio State Highway Patrol records.
