A 14-year-old in Michigan fell 25 to 30 ft (7.6 to 9.1 meters) whereas being chased by police in a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 that was allegedly stolen from Ford’s Flat Flat Rock Meeting Plant in Michigan.
Physique cam footage obtained by Fox, present an officer approaching the automobile together with his gun drawn, telling the boy to exit the automobile. In accordance with police, the 14-year-old exited from the passenger facet of the automobile, jumped over the retaining wall on the facet of the freeway, fell right into a vacant yard under.
The boy’s accidents have been severe sufficient to incapacitate him, and he was taken to hospital. Police from the township of Brownstown declare, in a press release, that not one of the accidents gave the impression to be life-threatening.
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The incident came about on October 12, 2022, shortly after 7:00 p.m., following a report that three Mustangs had been stolen from the Ford Flat Rock Meeting Plant’s storage lot. Brownstown Police say they situated three Mustangs Shelby GT500s going northbound on I-75.
They declare they tried to cease the automobiles, however none did. Officers have been capable of hold observe of one of many automobiles, which appeared to expire of gas. Following quite a lot of thefts from Ford’s Flat Rock Meeting Plant, and others within the Detroit space, automakers have reportedly began limiting the quantity of gas they put within the automobiles to dissuade thieves.
In accordance with an officer who spoke to Fox 2 Detroit, the sticker value of the Mustang Shelby GT500 that they recovered was $113,000. Incidents like this are, sadly, something however uncommon.
Ford has been the actual goal of thieves not too long ago, with stories rising as not too long ago as September of comparable thefts. In that occasion, greater than a dozen automobiles, together with Mustangs and Jeep Wagoneers from the close by Stellantis plant, have been stolen.
