The Wake County Sheriff’s Office and the Wendell Police Department are searching for a driver who jumped and ran from his car following a vehicle pursuit.
At approximately 4:50pm, a deputy attempted to conduct a traffic stop on US 64 and Rolesville Road for a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed. The driver did not stop, according to a press release from the Wake County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies pursued the vehicle on U.S. 64 to Lizard Lick Road when the driver struck an uninvolved car and the deputy’s car near Lizard Lick Road and N.C. 97. The driver continued and drove the wrong way down Wendell Boulevard, at that point the deputy did not follow the vehicle and canceled the pursuit…