Whenever I see live clips of high-speed chases, my first thought is to pray that nobody gets hurt. My second is that I hope they catch the fleeing person or people in the vehicle, because not only are they putting lives at risk with their reckless disregard for others, but in some instances, they might be wanted for something more serious than a traffic violation.
While high-speed chases aren’t as common in Charlotte as they are in, say, Los Angeles, they happen often enough that chances are you might know someone in Charlotte who has either witnessed one or wound up in the middle of one in a most unexpected and frightening way.
Yours truly found herself in the middle of one on a heavily trafficked two-lane Charlotte back road years ago. Traffic was backed up due to something unrelated going on. The driver of the getaway Jeep drove onto a neighborhood sidewalk and knocked over a couple of mailboxes before swerving back onto the road, where they promptly smashed into the front of an SUV that was two vehicles behind us. The police car cornered the driver on the back end after he hit the other vehicle, so the driver couldn’t try to get away.
On Monday afternoon, as Charlotte continued to try to dig out from the weekend’s snowstorm, which dropped 11 inches of snow and left even some of the “cleared” roads slick with black ice at the start of the work week, a high-speed chase involving four people in a vehicle ensued.
Though it’s not yet known what started it, local news station WSOC-TV got some pretty dramatic footage of how it ended and how one suspect was taken into custody due to the dogged determination of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers – and the K-9 officer – who chased the suspect on foot through the woods, over a creek, and uphill in the snow.
The suspect jumped over a fence into someone’s backyard, where it appears one officer got a hold of him through the fence and wouldn’t let go as his colleagues rushed in to help:
Chopper 9 Skyzoom captured an erratic driver and police chase just after 2:30 p.m. Monday.
We first spotted the black car on Sugar Creek Road.
They started speeding and weaving in and out of traffic on visibly patchy, slick roads. The vehicle crossed double yellow lines, even narrowly missing what appears to be a dog.
The driver eventually turns onto a neighborhood road, sliding to a stop when they can’t go any further.
Four people got out and ran in different directions. Two of them could be seen trekking through snow-covered woods in the east Charlotte neighborhood off Shamrock Drive, walking and running through front and backyards.
Here’s the video they got of the one fleeing suspect. Make sure to watch all the way to the end. For the record, they caught all four of them:
A dramatic end to a police chase this afternoon. CMPD was after a car that was weaving in and out streets thru Charlotte.
4 people jumped out in an East Charlotte neighborhood.
Chopper 9 captured this arrest of one of them. @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/Ny6EdOnaw9
— Hunter Sáenz (@Hunt_Saenz) February 2, 2026
Seeing things like that just gives you a whole new level of respect for police officers and what they have to go through!
On a related note:
PSA to all Charlotte drivers who are not used to the snow: clean off the tops of your cars before you drive or else it will fly back and hit the drivers behind you‼️‼️‼️
— Danielle Stein (@Danielle_Stein9) February 1, 2026
Thank you for your attention to this matter. 😉
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