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Man allegedly struck telephone pole, fled police after leading law enforcement on multi-parish chase
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BATON ROUGE - Police and state troopers arrested a man who allegedly led them on a multi-parish chase before crashing into a telephone pole in a neighborhood early Thursday morning.
State troopers said they tried to perform a traffic stop with the driver, later identified as 38-year-old Eric Coleman, on I-10 in Ascension Parish. Coleman sped away, going over 100 mph and allegedly committing numerous traffic violations, before entering residential areas in Baton Rouge and crashing into a telephone pole.
Coleman got out of the car and tried to run but was taken into custody with the help of the Baton Rouge Police Department.
No one was injured.
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