Yes. If you run from the cops,especially at such high speeds, you are putting other people at risk. If another driver had pulled in front of her, all you naysayers would be singing another tune. The cops are usually damned if they do and damned if they don't.
If the cops shoot at the tire and miss, you risk a ricochet and injury to an innocent. While the PIT manuver is SAFER at lower speeds, a fatal injury is still a possibility.
What is a helicopter going to do, track them until they stop?? Given the amount of traffic on the road and the reckless driving exhibited in the video footage, they are lucky that SCHP didn't do it earlier.
As for gun(g)ho Georgia Police...... what would you expect? A note to your mommy???? Get real.
This girl was 17 and like most 17 yo, think they are immune from this sort of tragedy, because they DO NOT THINK through the consequences of their actions, and are still just a few years past believing that cartoons are how real life is.
Darwin Award nominee, fer sure.
The lesson here is When the cop lights you up, PULL THE FVCK OVER!!!! The ticket is never as high as the price she paid.
The passenger's parents need to sue the driver's parents. The Troopers were protecting the rest of us from those idiots. They deserve a raise, imo.