By Steven Symes 
While the Audi A3 is a fine car for tooling around town, it honestly wouldn’t be our first or even twentieth choice to try outrunning Georgia troopers. After all, Georgia State Patrol trains its troopers on high-speed pursuit methods quite well and equips them with decently fast cruisers. And an Audi A3 is just mediocre.
Suspect pulls a Spider-Man move to try escaping troopers during car chase.
An S3 would fill us with more confidence if we were to try running from the law, while an RS3 would smoke a trooper, only as the driver you’d have to keep the car from flying off the road. But this suspect in Savannah apparently thought the plain old A3 was good enough to slip away from GSP.
To be clear, we think running from police is a dumb, dumb idea. But this guy brough a pea shooter to a machine gun fight and he pays the price.
The chase starts with a traffic stop and our suspect does the whole drive away as the trooper walks up trick – it’s so overplayed. But our camera car doesn’t struggle catching up. The trooper tails the Audi through a neighborhood well enough.
It’s only when they get back out on bigger roads and the suspect starts blowing through red lights like he’s invincible that he gets a lead on the trooper.
But superior training and a faster vehicle combine to help the trooper closed up the gap again. A smart person would’ve given up at this point. Also, a smart person would’ve have run from police in the first place.
We’re not dealing with a smart person here. That’s made clear when our suspect dodges into another residential area, because that worked so well the first time, and shuts off his lights. In a white Audi. With street lights overhead.
Then he starts driving head-on into oncoming traffic not because there’s traffic going his direction, but likely to get the trooper to back off.
By this point we’re probably more annoyed with the suspect than the trooper is. That makes the brutal PIT maneuver that follows oh so satisfying.
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