Crime & Safety

22-Year-Old Carlsbad Man Leads CHP on High Speed Chase

Andrew Joseph Holloway was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and reckless evading.

A 22-year-old man was arrested early Wednesday after allegedly leading California Highway Patrol personnel on a roundabout North County road chase that reached 130 mph at times.

Andrew Joseph Holloway of Carlsbad allegedly sped off when a CHP officer tried to pull him over about 12:45 a.m. for driving erratically on eastbound State Route 78 in Vista. Holloway, who had another young man riding in his Kia Spectra with him, exited the freeway at Mar Vista Drive and fled over various surface streets before getting onto Interstate 15 and heading north, said CHP spokesman Chris Parent.

Officers tailed the compact car as the driver traveled into the far northern reaches of San Diego County at high speeds, then exited at State Route 76, re-entered I-15, got off at Rainbow Valley Boulevard and doubled back to the south on the interstate. A short time later, an officer was able to pull directly behind the Kia near Old Highway 395 in Bonsall and perform a pursuit intervention technique, or PIT maneuver, in which a patrol vehicle nudges the back end of a suspect's vehicle abruptly to one side as a means of forcing it to skid to a stop. As it turned out, the Kia was running out of gas at that point anyway, Parent said.

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Holloway was then taken into custody without further incident. It was unclear if his passenger, whose name was not available, was also arrested, the spokesman said. Holloway was booked into county jail on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and reckless evading. He was being held on $50,000 bail pending arraignment, scheduled for Friday afternoon. The pursuit, which lasted about 20 minutes, resulted in no injuries or property damage, according to Parent.

–City News Service

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