Chase ends with crash, arrest

PALMER — An alleged drunk driver who blew past an Alaska State Trooper at more than 90 mph crashed his car into a guardrail and a trooper car before he was finally arrested.

According to documents Trooper Ben Markos filed in the court case against Terry Lee Wilson, 40, of Wasilla, at 3:21 a.m., March 14 on the Glenn Highway near Mile 31, the trooper spotted a blue 1988 Chevy Corsica coming up fast in his rearview mirror.

“I accelerated to approximately 80 mph and the vehicle was still closing,” Markos writes.

Markos’ rear radar detector clocked the car at 95 mph. He flipped on its lights and sirens and tried to pull the car over, but it didn’t stop. It accelerated to 125 mph and exited at Trunk Road. It ran a stop sign there, Markos writes, and headed south on Fireweed Road.

“The vehicle then collided with a guardrail adjacent to the Glenn/Parks interchange and spun out in the roadway. I was unable to stop my vehicle quickly enough and subsequently struck the front of the fleeing vehicle with my vehicle’s push guard at approximately 20 mph,” Markos writes.

Markos got out of his vehicle, but the driver, who turned out to be Wilson, refused to get out of his.

“I broke the driver’s window out and attempted to open the door. The driver did not comply with my instructions to get out of the car and I was finally able to pull the driver out of the vehicle through the passenger side door,” Markos writes.

Markos writes that Wilson had trouble standing without help and his eyes were bloodshot and watery. His breath smelled of alcohol.

An eventual test of his breath after he allegedly at first refused to give one yielded a .208 — the legal limit for driving is .08.

Wilson was arrested for felony drunken driving — which indicates he’s had two other drunken driving convictions in the past 10 years — felony refusing a breath test, felony eluding arrest, reckless driving and driving on a revoked license. He was jailed at the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility without a bail amount initially set. As of Saturday morning he’d been moved to the Goose Creek Correctional Center.

Contact Andrew Wellner at 352-2270

or andrew.wellner@frontiersman.com.