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A report of a stolen vehicle led to a chase that resulted in a two-vehicle wreck Thursday morning on Dawnville Road near Macedonia Baptist Church. No injuries were reported, but law enforcement officials said charges are pending against a Dalton woman.
Georgia State Patrol Cpl. David Phillips said a Whitfield County Sheriff’s deputy spotted a Toyota Tacoma that matched the description of a stolen vehicle but lost sight of the truck. Units from the state patrol and the sheriff’s office responded to the call, and a state trooper spotted the truck and gave chase when it did not pull over.
The trooper tried a PIT (pursuit intervention technique) maneuver to stop the vehicle, but Phillips said the driver, Jessica Underwood, 23, of Dalton, fought against the maneuver and drove back onto the road, striking another vehicle.
The driver of that vehicle, Lester Keeler, said deputies had stopped traffic on Dawnville Road just north of Mitchell Bridge Road and appeared to be trying to force the Tacoma to go south as the car turned onto Dawnville. But he said the driver went around the patrol car and headed north on Dawnville.
“I think they wanted to try to PIT her into the field up there, but she came this way instead,” he said.
Phillips said Underwood was taken to a local hospital after telling officers she was pregnant.
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A Georgia State trooper looks over the damage to a Toyota truck after it was stopped during a chase in Dawnville Thursday. Matt Hamilton/The Daily Citizen
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