{"id":124889,"date":"2025-03-11T22:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thencbeat.com\/?p=124889"},"modified":"2025-03-11T22:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:06:11","slug":"durham-county-high-speed-chase-ends-with-truck-sinking-in-falls-lake-driver-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/durham-county-high-speed-chase-ends-with-truck-sinking-in-falls-lake-driver-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham County High-Speed Chase Ends with Truck Sinking in Falls Lake, Driver Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">A dramatic high-speed chase in the early Tuesday morning, Mar. 11, ended with a truck plunging into Falls Lake, and now police is searching for the driver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">According to a press release from the <strong>Durham County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/strong>, the incident began shortly after 2 a.m. when a deputy spotted a vehicle driving recklessly near the intersection of <em>Geer Street<\/em> and <em>US 70<\/em>. When the deputy attempted a traffic stop, the driver refused to comply, leading officers on a six-mile pursuit down Geer Street.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The chase came to a halt when the driver veered onto a dirt road near<em> Falls Lake<\/em>. Deputies chose to terminate the pursuit due to safety concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">A short time later, authorities discovered the truck submerged near the I-85 North bridge. The vehicle was unoccupied, suggesting that the driver may have escaped before it sank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_124896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124896\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124896 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/thencbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_9779-e1741745094400-1024x571.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"388\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit | ABC 11<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_124897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124897\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124897 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/thencbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_9780-e1741745131606-1024x593.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"403\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit | ABC 11<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The Durham Sheriff\u2019s Office Search and Recovery team successfully recovered the truck and is continuing to search the surrounding area for the missing driver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">At this time, authorities have not released further details regarding the driver\u2019s identity or any potential charges.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dramatic high-speed chase in the early Tuesday morning, Mar. 11, ended with a truck plunging into Falls Lake, and now police is searching for the driver. According to a press release from the Durham County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the incident began shortly after 2 a.m. when a deputy spotted a vehicle driving recklessly near the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[81,5197,5198,552,5199,38],"class_list":["post-124889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-news","tag-durham-news","tag-durham-county-news","tag-falls-lake-accident","tag-high-speed-chase","tag-missing-driver","tag-north-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}