- November 17, 2024
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A 30-year-old man died Tuesday, Nov. 18 after crashing his Chevy Impala into three other vehicles while fleeing police at almost 100 miles per hour on U.S.1.
Ronald G. Evans was stopped for speeding by a state trooper on U.S.1 just south of State Road 100, according to a Florida Highway Patrol news release, and “after a brief encounter with the trooper … fled the scene in his vehicle northbound on US 1,” according to the release. “The suspect was then observed by a Flagler County deputy traveling at 97 mph in a 45 mph posted zone while fleeing the area.”
He didn’t get far — just three-fourths of a mile, according to the news release — before he flew through the red light at U.S. 1 and State Road 100 and crashed into a Dodge Ram driven by 65-year-old Pomona Park resident Thomas Andrew Luttenbacher.
Luttenbacher and a passenger, 54-year-old Crescent City resident Roxanne Marie Kern, were not hurt in the crash, which caused about $6,000 worth of damage to the truck.
But Evans lost control of the Impala and veered into the parking lot of the Citgo station on the northeast corner of the intersection, and struck a parked Ford Explorer and a parked Chevy 1500, causing $2,500 worth of damage to each. He died at the scene of the crash.
