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Victim sues police in chase
Published July 21, 2009
A Rainsville man injured in a 2007 head-on collision in Rainsville during a high-speed police chase filed suit last week in DeKalb County against several DeKalb County, Jackson County and Tennessee law enforcement agencies.
James Radford filed the suit, which seeks an unspecified amount of monetary damages and lists the city of Rainsville and the town of Powell as defendants.
It also lists a number of out-of-county defendants, including Jackson County Sheriff Mike Wells, two unnamed Jackson County deputies, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department, the city of Scottsboro, the town of Section, and the city of Stevenson.
Radford was injured in a wreck that was the culmination of a 50-mile high-speed chase that left two teenage runaways dead.
According to state troopers at the time and details listed in the lawsuit, Natasha Carter, 17, and Teri Stanford, 16, both of Winchester, Tenn., stole a 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee from a subdivision there after running away from their foster home. South Pittsburg, Tenn. police chased the Jeep after spotting it being driven recklessly and found it to be reported stolen.
The two teens led a police chase from South Pittsburgh to Scottsboro, then to Rainsville, with the various police agencies joining along the way. The two teens continued through downtown Rainsville heading south in the northbound lane of Highway 35 when their vehicle hit a 2004 Chevrolet pickup being driven by Radford, near Plainview School.
Carter and Standford were killed. Radford was taken to Huntsville Hospital.
At the time, trooper reports indicated the teens were driving on the wrong side of the road, but police vehicles were in the correct lane.
The suit claims the defendants “negligently, wantonly, willfully, maliciously and/or intentionally breached their duties as law enforcement personnel by operating their vehicles in a manner which proximately caused injury and damages to Mr. Radford.”
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