The Observation Deck

Accident on Highland Ave.

Police chasing a suspect in a robbery.




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Charyn Compeau wrote:Another one? Good heavens...

Charyn

When you sign off pic is bigger than your message.




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I think they caught the suspect car, a red Buick, at W. 40th and Detroit. I don't know about any suspects.

The incident began at Elmwood and Hilliard and very quickly turned into a high speed chase. That Buick also crashed into several other cars in Lakewood and in Cleveland.

The Squad transported several people to the hospital with minor injuries.

A short while later another police car was involved in a minor collision at Westwood and Hilliard.

(At least the car in the picture was an older one!)

more photos online in my Febraury Photo Blog...



You can see the entire accident in this photo. The white van in the intersection was the car struck.


The White van.



Most troubling of all was that Lakewood is using a towing company from outside the city.


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Don't the Baker boys get enough business towing council member vehicles off Lake or Clifton in the morning?

Jim maybe you should launch a full scale investigation of why they are using a non-Lakewood towing company.

Doug

What/where is Highland Road. I think all named roads should be assigned a block number like, say, West 117th. (My first post with an Emoticon.)

I trust the officer was not hurt.

Not surprised to hear that the incident started on Elmwood. That's my block.

Last week, after reading the posts regarding several break-ins in the area, I put a little extra effort into locking down my own house.

A couple of days ago, I came home to find that someone had practically ripped the door knob off of my back door. Fortunately, they either weren't able to get in or decided it wasn't worth it.

Thank you Cuyahoga Safe & Lock (on Madison)!!!

Reports in from the Lakewood Onion, (subsidiary of the original Onion which features all the 'news' that can be made up) state that the accident was caused by a free wheeling dispatcher who instructed the officer to pursue the suspect onto Highland Ave. This created a great deal of confusion for both the officer and the suspect (who was listening in on a scanner- a tip that he got from the local community activists who use them to listen in on swat teams). Since both the long time residents had never heard of Highland Ave they became disoriented and ran into one another.
As a follow up to this story it turns out that both the officer and the suspect went to grade school together at Franklin and live just a few doors away from one another here in Lakewood.

Shawn Juris wrote:Reports in from the Lakewood Onion, (subsidiary of the original Onion which features all the 'news' that can be made up) state that the accident was caused by a free wheeling dispatcher who instructed the officer to pursue the suspect onto Highland Ave. This created a great deal of confusion for both the officer and the suspect (who was listening in on a scanner- a tip that he got from the local community activists who use them to listen in on swat teams). Since both the long time residents had never heard of Highland Ave they became disoriented and ran into one another.
As a follow up to this story it turns out that both the officer and the suspect went to grade school together at Franklin and live just a few doors away from one another here in Lakewood.

Shawn

This merely underlines what I have been trying to say about residency incentives. If more than 22% of the Lakewood Police lived here, they would have known where Highland Ave. was. That is unless names were to tough for them to understand and they needed simple things like numbers.


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