Tuesday, July 04, 2000
Crash during police chase kills Dayton man
By Ray Schaefer
Enquirer Contributor
FORT MITCHELL — The original call around 6 p.m. Monday was for medical assistance on Buttermilk Pike for someone in a black BMW. Nearly 21/2 hours later, a Dayton, Ohio, man was dead from injuries received when he was thrown from his car as he wrecked during a police chase on northbound Interstate 75 near the Dixie Highway overpass.
Lawrence C. Albery, 34, died at University Hospital around 8:30 p.m. of severe head injuries.
“(The car) left the roadway just north of the Dixie Highway overpass,” Fort Mitchell Police Detective Tom Loos said. “It slid across (I-75) into the ditch and began to execute a series of rolls. The driver was ejected.”
Fort Mitchell Police Chief Steve Hensley said events started with a 5:58 p.m. call for medical assistance to westbound Buttermilk Pike.
Chief Hensley said Taylor Mill Officer Pat Reese found Mr. Albery slumped over the steering wheel.
Officer Reese asked for help, and Crescent Springs Officers Eric Nelson and Rick Miller responded.
Moments later, the chase was on.
Chief Hensley said Mr. Albery gave Officer Reese his driver's license.
Officer Reese spoke briefly with Mr. Albery before the driver sped away and headed north on I-75.
By then, Officers Reese, Nelson and Miller were pursuing at a distance.
The chase ended less than 100 feet north of the Dixie Highway overpass.
“There were a couple witnesses who said it flipped multiple times,” Chief Hensley said of the wrecked car.
Detective Loos said Mr. Albery's car slid off the east side of the road and began flipping.
After going down an embankment, Mr. Albery was ejected and the car continued over the northbound on-ramp to I-75, landed upright in a drainage ditch and caught fire.
In addition to Fort Mitchell, Taylor Mill and Crescent Springs, units from the Fort Wright, Park Hills and Kenton County police departments responded.
Northbound I-75 was closed for nearly two hours.
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