No one was seriously injured.
Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Leo Shirkey said a 32-year-old Massillon man was driving at 90 mph on I-77 near Portage Street NW and wouldn t stop for authorities. He pulled off the interstate at Shuffel Street NW and kept going.
Shirkey said the driver caused a couple of crashes as he continued to evade authorities, but none of them resulted in life-threatening injuries.
Township police joined state troopers and the patrol s aviation unit, catching up to the driver after he abandoned the sport utility vehicle, which had been reported stolen from Texas, and fled on foot.
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JACKSON TWP. A Canton man was hospitalized after an Interstate 77 crash during which he was thrown from his car as it overturned several times Tuesday afternoon.
The 4:36 p.m. crash on the interstate south of Shuffel Street NW left authorities closing two of the three northbound lanes for hours.
The 25-year-old was driving north at a high rate of speed when he came up on traffic and lost control of his vehicle, said Lt. Leo Shirkey of the Ohio Highway Patrol s Canton post.
The vehicle went off the left side, striking a guardrail, came back up onto the road and overturned several times, Shirkey said. As the car rolled, the young man was thrown onto the road.
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OSNABURG TWP. A Stark County sheriff s deputy injured when she crashed her cruiser as she was heading to a burglary in progress won t be cited, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.
Deputy Haley Hiller had been hospitalized following the Friday morning accident during which she was trapped upside-down in the vehicle.
She had been driving south on state Route 44 at 1:38 a.m. when she lost control on the slush- and ice-covered road near Valleybrook Street SE, the patrol said. The car slid off the road and into a ditch, struck a large culvert and overturned.
Hiller has been released from the hospital and she continues to recover, according to a spokesman for the Stark County Sheriff s Office.