A Minnesota State Highway Patrol officer engaged in a high speed chase Tuesday afternoon, but failed to catch the culprit.

Wednesday, August 25, 1999

A Minnesota State Highway Patrol officer engaged in a high speed chase Tuesday afternoon, but failed to catch the culprit.

A driver in a brown Isuzu – model unknown – driving westbound on County Road 1 near Racine was clocked driving at a high rate of speed by a state trooper at 3:17 p.m.

After the trooper pursued the vehicle, it blew through a stop sign and onto Highway 63. The trooper followed the vehicle as it turned into the Richard Walters’ property, tearing through a back lot and taking down two electric fences and a telephone box.

The pursuit continued through Duane Hall’s soy bean field, ruining a one-mile stretch of beans. The vehicle exited the field onto a township road, turned onto Highway 63 again, before vanishing on another township road.

A Mower County Sheriff’s deputy took the patrolman’s report. The deputy was able to contact Hall, who told the deputy he would turn the crop damage into his insurance company.

The vehicle is distinguished by its color and a bike rack on the back.

The report did not indicate how fast vehicle was traveling or if the trooper followed the vehicle through the yard and field.