KELLOGG, Minn. – A wild police chase north out of Goodview ended with the pursued driver crashing into a sandpile at a dead-end road 22 miles away near Kellogg. Also crashing into the sandpile was one of six police vehicles that had engaged in the pursuit. Arrested uninjured was Alexia Grace Brown, 20, of Arcadia, Wisconsin. The chase began about midnight when a Goodview police officer clocked Brown northbound out of Winona on Highway 61 at 72 mph in a 55 zone. She didn’t stop. In vain attempts to elude officers, she three times made u-turns across medians – north back south, north again, south again and north again. During all this, more police joined the pursuit, also making the serial hair-pin reverses. Not even a spike strip stopped Brown. She maneuvered around the spikes – as barely did the squad car that was tightest on her tail. During all this she was weaving across lanes and back and forth over center lines and into fog lines. Her driving acumen — or luck — was all the more remarkable considering she was drunk, police said afterwards. It was near Kellogg that Brown turned onto a county road and then the dead-end street. Although Brown was not injured thumping suddenly onto the sandpile, the Winona County deputy in closest pursuit also smacked into the sand and suffered back pains in his own impact. Both vehicles were damaged. Brown was booked into Winona County jail 5-1/2 hours after the chase began. She spent the rest of Sunday sobering up to see the judge first thing Monday.
Brown. Charges include fleeing police, speeding, reckless driving, driving drunk, driving without a license. Other charges were pending.