Driver crashes during police chase through Gaston County

DALLAS, N.C. — A man has been arrested after a police chase led to a crash in Gaston County Friday morning.

The incident began in Dallas around 4:30 a.m. when they received reports that someone was breaking into cars at the Long Creek apartment complex.

When they arrived at the scene, they said 20-year-old Jamaurie Jackson jumped out of some bushes and drove away.

Eventually, he crashed on New Hope Road in front of Eastridge Mall.

Channel 9′s Ken Lemon spoke with a driver who said she nearly got caught up in the chase.

Ashley Herring told Lemon that she was stunned that Jackson was out of the hospital, stating: “The car was literally on its roof.”

Herring said she was casually driving that morning when she received a call from her husband warning her that Jackson was heading her way.

He was allegedly going over 60 miles an hour in a 45-mile-an-hour zone.

“He told me not to move, and as soon as he said it, the car came flying by and a cop was behind him,” Herring explained. The car didn’t have any lights on, but you could tell that it was flipping and then just smoking everywhere.”

She said suddenly police were swarming around the car after it took out a utility poll.

“If my husband hadn’t called me and I had gone ahead and turned, I probably would have been hit by him,” Herring elaborated.

Jackson was eventually taken to an area hospital before being booked into jail hours later. He is being held without bond, according to police.

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