Friday, October 01, 1999
Man hurt as crash ends chase
Pursued by police, he smashed into house
BY JANICE MORSE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
MONROE — A West Chester man was seriously hurt early Thursday in a police chase that ended with his vehicle crashing into a Liberty Township home.
Theron M. White, 36, who lives in the 7300 block of Dimmick Road, was flown by helicopter to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, where information on his condition was being withheld Thursday afternoon.
The chase began just after 2:30 a.m., when Monroe police stopped Mr. White in the 900 block of South Main Street for allegedly having no taillights on his silver 1998 Toyota Celica.
In a statement Thursday, Monroe Police Chief Ernest Howard gave this account of the events that followed:
When officers asked Mr. White for his driver's license, he said he didn't have it with him, but he provided a Social Security number. Officers asked a dispatcher to check on that number and learned Mr. White's license had been put under a five-year suspension April 27.
Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles records show Mr. White was convicted of driving drunk in a Jan. 20 crash in Hamilton County. He also was convicted of three speeding violations between August and December 1998.
While police were checking on his license's status, Mr. White sped away, heading south on Cincinnati-Dayton Road.
After seeing Mr. White pass a vehicle on a hill and run a traffic light at Princeton Road, police backed off for safety reasons as speeds exceeded 90 mph. Butler County sheriff's deputies deployed a tire-deflating device along the road, but Mr. White's vehicle crashed before reaching the waiting officers.
The car went out of control on a curve just south of Princeton Road. It went off the left side of the road and struck mailboxes, a traffic control sign and other objects. It then crossed to the right side of the road and struck a utility pole before finally crashing into the front porch of a home in the 6500 block of Cincinnati-Dayton Road.
Mr. White was ejected from the vehicle when it struck the home.
Butler County Sheriff's spokesman Brad Kraemer said his office had no record of any other injuries in the crash.
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