TastesLikeChicken
09-14-2004, 04:37 PM
GREEN BAY, Wis. Sept. 14, 2004 — Police were stunned when a man they were chasing dumped a baby in a car seat out of his vehicle and onto a busy highway.
The dramatic scene was caught on a police cruiser's video.
Officers chased Dana Bettin, 23, from the Oshkosh area after he had taken his girlfriend's baby during a domestic dispute, the Brown County Sheriff's Department said.
With the child of the alleged victim in the car, Bettin rammed a Wisconsin State Patrol cruiser near ******on and continued north on U.S. 41 into Brown County, police said.
At one point, he slowed and threw the infant, strapped in a child restraint seat, onto the roadway and fled. Other officers stopped and retrieved the child, who was unharmed.
The chase hit speeds up to 100 mph and ended on U.S. 41 after Bettin had a minor collision with a vehicle and then crashed into an unoccupied Brown County squad car. He was pinned underneath the car he was driving after it rolled.
Brown County Sheriff's Lt. Keith Deneys said Bettin died Sunday around 4 p.m.
Information from: Green Bay Press-Gazette,
abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040914_465.html (http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040914_465.html)
The dramatic scene was caught on a police cruiser's video.
Officers chased Dana Bettin, 23, from the Oshkosh area after he had taken his girlfriend's baby during a domestic dispute, the Brown County Sheriff's Department said.
With the child of the alleged victim in the car, Bettin rammed a Wisconsin State Patrol cruiser near ******on and continued north on U.S. 41 into Brown County, police said.
At one point, he slowed and threw the infant, strapped in a child restraint seat, onto the roadway and fled. Other officers stopped and retrieved the child, who was unharmed.
The chase hit speeds up to 100 mph and ended on U.S. 41 after Bettin had a minor collision with a vehicle and then crashed into an unoccupied Brown County squad car. He was pinned underneath the car he was driving after it rolled.
Brown County Sheriff's Lt. Keith Deneys said Bettin died Sunday around 4 p.m.
Information from: Green Bay Press-Gazette,
abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040914_465.html (http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040914_465.html)