1 Oct 2026, Thu
Get The Auto Wire in your inbox
Driving news, policy watch and the auto industry’s biggest moves. Free, no spam.

We’ve often noted how people in junky, underpowered cars look foolish trying to flee police. Running is a bad idea regardless, but apparently if you’re going to do it in a 30-year-old Ford Taurus, you might occasionally surprise everyone, as this driver did by getting away.

An aging beater slipping past a trooper is a rare and unexpected result. Whatever combination of luck and circumstance made it possible, the escape remains an exception to the rule that fleeing police usually ends in capture.