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December 22, 2006

Update: Motorist crashes as Scituate police pursue

SCITUATE -- A 24-year-old Cranston man is lucky to be alive after his car went hurtling through the air early this morning in Scituate as he eluded a police officer who had been following him for speeding, according to the police.

Savy Yon, of 84 Governor St., was driving west around 1 a.m. on Tunk Hill Road in the wrong lane several times, the police said. Scituate Police Officer Keith Yeaw watched him veer into the wrong lane several times and turned on his sirens to pull the driver over.

Instead, the driver accelerated to about 55 miles per hour in the 35 mile-per-hour zone, Lt. Stephen Lang said this morning. Yon continued at that speed for about 4 to 5 miles as Yeaw pursued him, Lang said.

Then, when the roadway became a straightaway shortly before the intersection with Route 102 – where Tunk Hill Road comes to a T – Yon accelerated, Lang said.

At that point, Lang said, police backed off on their pursuit.

“He then accelerated his car at a high rate of speed and pulled away from the police officer like nothing, he was just gone,” Lang said. “He hit the gas, went clean through the intersection and never hit his brake lights.”

The vehicle went head-on into the woods, flipping over end to end and cutting trees in half in the air, Lang said.

The car was torn apart, and Lang was found trapped with his torso underneath the dashboard of the car and his legs in the seat area, Lang said. He was extricated and transported to Rhode Island Hospital by helicopter.

He’s in stable condition with several bones in his face fractured, all his ribs broken and several bones in his back broken, Lang said. He is not paralyzed and has no brain damage, according to Lang.

"So he's really lucky," Lang said.

-- projo.com staff writer Kate Bramson

Posted by Kate Bramson  at 12:13 PM | Permalink

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