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Vehicle Pursuit/ADW on a Peace Officer
By Anonymous — Monday, November 2nd, 2009
 Ventura County Sheriff's Department Vehicle Pursuit/ADW on a Peace Officer Date & Time: 11/02/2009 / 12:10 A.M. Unit Responsible: Moorpark Police Department (S)uspects, (V)ictims, (W)itnesses Address Age (V) Patton, Alice Deputy Sheriff (V) Garnier, Adam Deputy Sheriff (S) Male Juvenile Oxnard 17 On 11/02/2009, at about 12:10 A.M, Dep. Patton, employed by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department watched a vehicle as the driver sat through a green light on Spring Road at Peach Hill. Dep. Patton activated her traffic enforcement lights and exited her marked patrol unit in order to contact the driver of the vehicle. As Dep. Patton walked towards the vehicle the driver turned onto East bound Peach Hill Road, against the red traffic signal. Dep. Patton got back in her unit and followed the vehicle in an attempt to get the driver to stop. The driver of the vehicle ignored the patrol unit’s red lights and siren as it fled east on Peach Hill and then turned north on Miller Parkway. The vehicle proceeded onto Science Dr. from Miller Parkway. As the vehicle entered Science Dr., Dep. Garnier joined Dep. Patton to assist with apprehending the driver. The vehicle drove to the end of Science Dr. where it made a u-turn and sped towards Dep. Patton and Garnier’s patrol vehicles. Dep. Patton and Garnier had positioned their vehicles side by side, about seven or eight feet apart, in order to initiate the traffic stop at the end of the cul-de-sac. The driver of the suspect vehicle intentionally collided with the front passenger side of Dep. Garnier’s unit and side swiped Dep. Patton’s vehicle as the driver continued to evade the officers. The vehicle then proceeded west on Los Angeles Ave., (Highway 118) through the City of Moorpark at speeds between 65 and 85 miles per hour. As the vehicle reached the 35 miles per hour turn just west of the City of Moorpark at approximately 85 miles per hour, the driver lost control causing the vehicle to spin out of control and then flip over several times before coming to rest on it’s roof on the north side of the roadway. The driver of the vehicle, a 17-year-old Oxnard resident, was trapped inside the vehicle and the 15-year-old male passenger was ejected. The driver was removed from the vehicle by the Ventura County Fire Department who utilized the “Jaws of Life”. Both juveniles were transported to Simi Valley Hospital where the passenger was admitted for non life threatening injuries. The driver was found to be uninjured. The driver was later booked into the Ventura County Juvenile Detention Center where he is being held without bail for the below listed charges. 1. 2800.3 of the California Vehicle Code, Death or Serious Bodily Injury proximately caused by flight from pursuing peace officer. |
