Crime & Safety

81 Year-Old Soutbury Woman Leads Police on a Chase in Newtown

The chase resulted for 1.6 miles and then she pulled over.

State troopers in Newtown engaged in a brief chase with a motorist Wednesday. 

That news is not highly unusual but in this case the suspect was an 81-year-old Southbury woman, police told the Waterbury Republican-American. 

Lillian Wright allegedly failed to stop for a state trooper after she was driving on the shoulder of Interstate 84, and it continued for 1.6 miles until she stopped, the Republican-American reports. 

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