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Name Not Disclosed

Age : 18

Gender : Male

Race : Unknown

Date : 07/30/2021

Location : Shake Ridge Road west of Evergreen Way

City : Pioneer

County : Amador

State : California

Agency : Amador County Sheriff’s Office

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Vehicle

Event : Driver killed by police chase crash

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

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REASON FOR POLICE CHASE:
Expired vehicle registration. Amador County sheriff’s deputies had initially been called to Overland Drive after a resident reported a man who had allegedly previously attempted to steal a vehicle from the property and was suspected of casing the residence. The man was gone when deputies arrived. At approximately 7:23 p.m., a female deputy located a vehicle matching the description and attempted a traffic stop specifically because its registration was expired. The driver continued driving away after she activated her emergency lights and siren, and the deputy pursued.
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EVENT NARRATIVE:
On 07/30/2021, an unidentified man was killed when his vehicle left the roadway, struck a utility pole and caught fire during an approximately three-minute Amador County Sheriff’s Office pursuit near Pioneer. Firefighters extinguished the vehicle and resulting vegetation fire and found the driver dead inside.
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The encounter began when deputies responded to the Overland Drive area in Pioneer following a suspicious-person report. According to the sheriff’s office, a resident reported that a man who had allegedly previously attempted to steal a vehicle from the property had returned and might have been casing the residence. The man had left before deputies arrived, but deputies obtained a detailed description of both him and his vehicle.
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At approximately 7:23 p.m., a female sheriff’s deputy located a vehicle matching that description. Although the earlier suspicious-person complaint was why deputies were looking for the vehicle, the sheriff’s office stated that the deputy attempted the traffic stop based on the vehicle’s expired registration. She activated her emergency lights and siren. The driver continued driving away and the deputy pursued.
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The pursuit lasted approximately three minutes. According to the sheriff’s office, the driver crossed the double-yellow center lines into the opposing lane during the pursuit. Police reported that he then appeared to overcorrect, causing the vehicle to leave the roadway.
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The vehicle struck a utility pole and immediately became engulfed in flames. The burning vehicle ignited surrounding vegetation, creating a secondary fire at the crash scene. Firefighters responded, extinguished the fires and discovered the driver dead inside the vehicle.
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No PIT/TVI maneuver, spike strips, roadblock or intentional police-vehicle contact is reported in the available account. The sheriff’s office disclosed the pursuit’s approximate three-minute duration but did not provide a measured maximum speed, the deputy’s speed, the precise distance traveled, the following distance immediately before the crash, or evidence that a supervisor ordered the pursuit terminated.
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The California Highway Patrol Major Accident Investigation Team took responsibility for investigating the fatal crash rather than leaving the crash reconstruction solely to the Amador County Sheriff’s Office.
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The deceased man’s identity was initially withheld pending positive identification and notification of his family. The surviving public reporting located for this reconstruction does not establish a subsequently released name, preventing reliable biographical information about his life and family from being included.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The female Amador County sheriff’s deputy who initiated and conducted the approximately three-minute pursuit has not been publicly identified in the available reporting. Sheriff Gary Redman had taken command of the Amador County Sheriff’s Office in April 2021, several months before the fatal pursuit, but he was not identified as participating in the encounter.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article253169293.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/gooddaysacramento/news/man-dies-following-amador-county-sheriff-pursuit/
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/man-dies-following-amador-county-sheriff-pursuit/