COFFEYVILLE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a Kansas law enforcement pursuit that ended in a deadly crash started when a driver in a pickup truck slammed head on into the patrol cars of deputies who had stopped to attend to a deer that had been struck by a vehicle.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that the collision late Monday disabled one patrol car and damaged the other.
The release says the truck’s driver, 24-year-old Robert Scott Jackson, of Coffeyville, then fled before loosing control when the roadway’s surface switched from pavement to gravel about 4 miles north of Coffeyville. Jackson was pronounced dead at the scene.
