THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, July 26, 1996 TAG: 9607260431
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY SUSIE STOUGHTON, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: SUFFOLK LENGTH: 39 lines
A tractor-trailer rammed the rear of a van on U.S. Route 58 Bypass Thursday morning, forcing the vehicle with three women and six show dogs off the road, then led police on a 30-mile chase through three jurisdictions before being stopped.
Lloyd A. Durham, 48, of Pendleton, S.C., was arrested in Southampton County and charged with hit and run, attempting to elude police, driving under the influence of drugs and possession of narcotics. He was in custody at police headquarters late Thursday and was expected to be taken to Western Tidewater Regional Jail.
Durham, who was driving a 1993 Peterbilt truck owned by Double S Enterprises of Piedmont, S.C., was supposedly en route from Chicago to Baltimore, where he had been due to deliver a load Wednesday, said police spokesman Mike Simpkins.
When arrested, Durham told officers he was headed for Baltimore.
Police said the incident started just after 9:30 a.m. on westbound Route 58, near the Nansemond Parkway overpass just east of the Wilroy Road exit.
A tractor-trailer rammed into a 1992 Ford van driven by Kathie D. Vogel, 46, of the 2400 block of London Bridge Road, Virginia Beach, and pushed the vehicle to the shoulder. She and two friends were on their way to a dog show in South Carolina.
Vogel stopped and alerted Officer D.F. Jordan, who was nearby assisting a motorist. He notified other officers by radio, and Officer J.W. Griggs spotted the truck near Holland Road at the western end of the bypass. He and Sgt. J.J. DeStefano chased the truck about 30 miles through Suffolk, around the edge of Franklin and into Southampton County.
After a 21-minute chase at what Simpkins called ``moderately high speeds,'' Durham was stopped just west of Franklin, with assistance from Southampton County sheriff's deputies and State Policeman G.A. Jackson.
The pursuit ``never exceeded 70 miles an hour,'' Simpkins said.
KEYWORDS: ACCIDENT TRAFFIC HIGH-SPEED CHASE by CNB