Driver rams several cars, crashes in ditch in Mimosa Park

‘The cops are screaming ‘Put your hands up”

A man driving a white car ran into several vehicles on Highway 90 this evening before crashing into a ditch on Monsanto Street while he was being pursued by deputies.

Deputies arrested the perpetrator, not yet named, at Primose and Monsanto streets in Luling’s Mimosa Park Subdivision.

Heather Dubois Ledbetter, a resident in the 400 block of Monsanto St., said she had just left Walmart when she saw a white car in the St. Charles Plaza parking lot being chased by a police car.

“He went through the Smoothie King exit and almost hit me so I had to slam my brakes,” Ledbetter said. “Then he turned down Maryland (Street) and the cop was behind me. Then, somehow while I was turning down our street, the cop chased him back to (Highway) 90. When I got to the stop sign before the canal, I had to run it because he was about to hit me. He crashed and the cops are screaming, ‘Put your hands up.’ I’m so lucky I ran the stop sign.”

At this point, Madison Templet of Luling said she was sitting in her room at her residence in the 300 block of Monsanto Street when she heard sirens.

“You could hear them speeding from the highway on Monsanto Street, “ Templet said. “You can hear the car flip a good two or three times. It hit my neighbor’s mailbox and landed in the ditch, and it hit the light pole.”

Templet said she ran out of her room, opened the front door and saw police cars approaching the vehicle. Deputies went to the vehicle on the driver’s side, and she saw what appeared to be a woman with the man.

“All I saw was the guy’s arm leaning out of the door and the sun roof in the car was smashed in,” she said. “I was not positive if he was trying to get out. It just kind of freaked me out. Cops came running and handcuffed him automatically.”