Officers chase stolen cement truck as contents spill onto I-20

GROVETOWN, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Officers chased a stolen cement truck by a number of counties Monday morning because it poured its contents throughout Interstate 20.

Though suspect Erik Adam Bodie, 41, was in the end arrested, the moist cement delayed site visitors for hours on the freeway.

The truck was stolen round 8:55 a.m. on the Fuel Professional at 4800 Columbia Street north of Grovetown, in keeping with the Columbia County Sheriff’s Workplace.

Deputies initially had been concerned within the pursuit, nevertheless it was ultimately turned over to the Georgia State Patrol because the truck headed west on I-20.

A Grovetown-based trooper took up the chase at mile marker 183 in Columbia County. 

Two troopers tried to make use of “cease sticks” to disable the concrete truck and convey the pursuit to an finish, however they had been unsuccessful, in keeping with GSP. 

Whether or not intentional or not, the truck dumped moist cement on the freeway close to mile marker 175 in McDuffie County.

The truck exited I-20 at Georgia Freeway 22 in Taliaferro County and continued north earlier than re-entering westbound I-20, in keeping with GSP.

Taliaferro County Sheriff Tia McWilliams stated considered one of her deputies, Capt. Chris Treadwell, threw down extra “cease sticks” at mile marker 148.

Nonetheless, the pursuit continued.

A trooper using in a passenger seat of one other trooper’s patrol automobile ultimately disabled the truck by firing rounds into its radiator and hydraulic tanks close to mile marker 146.

The motive force was taken into custody in Greene County close to mile marker 141, in keeping with authorities. 

However the results of the incident lingered for much longer, because of the moist concrete that was dumped on I-20.

Round noon, all lanes of westbound I-20 had been closed between White Oak Street close to Appling and County and Cobbham Street close to Thomson.

One driver stated they’d been ready there for an hour

By 12:25 p.m., each lanes had reopened, however site visitors acquired shifting slowly.

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