COLUMBUS – Police stopped a semi-truck on I-270, but not until the driver led authorities on a merry chase halfway around the city.
The chase started around Tuttle Crossing Boulevard after people began reporting the person behind the wheel was driving erratically, Hilliard police told WBNS 10-TV.
Hilliard Police said people started reporting the semi just before 7:30 p.m. By the time officers caught up to the semi, police had received four additional calls from people reporting the driver.
Law enforcement followed the semi around I-270 to the south then to the east side of the city.
It was 43 minutes, 26 miles, and multiple sets of stop sticks later that the semi stopped at 270 north just south of Main Street on the city’s far east side.
Police said it is unclear why the driver was driving erratically but the driver was not driving at a high speed.
10TV cameras showed the front wheels down to the rims as officers surrounded the semi, taking the driver in to custody.
Hilliard Police said the driver was taken to Mount Carmel East for medical treatment. The driver’s condition at the hospital was not released.
Police are not speculating whether this was a medical condition or something else that led to this erratic and dangerous driving.
Police said the truck was carrying 43,000 gallons of syrup.
-Video courtesy WBNS 10-TV