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Man allegedly struck telephone pole, fled police after leading law enforcement on multi-parish chase

1 hour 54 minutes 5 seconds ago Thursday, August 14 2025 Aug 14, 2025 August 14, 2025 9:13 AM August 14, 2025 in News
Source: WBRZ

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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