Video: Cops chased down car with unconscious driver at wheel

Two Atlanta constabulary officers were capable to pursuit down a dilatory moving-car, interruption its model and alert the unconscious operator arsenic to what was happening earlier it rolled into traffic, police-worn assemblage camera footage shows.

According to the Atlanta Police Department, Officers D. Brooks and B. York responded to reports of a "down oregon injured" idiosyncratic connected the northbound broadside of Atlanta connected March 6. Brooks and York rapidly noticed a antheral who was unconscious wrong of a car.

The officers attempted to sound connected the car's model to alert the driver. After astir 30 seconds of tapping connected the window, the antheral stirred.

Police past assertion the operator enactment his ft connected the state aft noticing the officers adjacent his car.

The car dilatory rolled done an bare intersection and rapidly drifted into a lane of oncoming traffic. While Brooks chased aft the car connected foot, York ran backmost to their patrol car to alert oncoming postulation and artifact the slow-moving car.

Once helium caught up with the vehicle, Brooks utilized his baton to smash the model and propulsion the car's exigency brake.

According to police, the operator was arrested and "charged with aggregate postulation offenses," including driving portion nether the influence.

"The associated effort of these 2 officers saved the operator from harm's mode but besides apt saved countless different citizens from injury," the section said successful a Facebook post. "Their effect to this incidental reflects not lone their fantabulous grooming and level of care, but our highest ideals. We accidental their names with pridefulness and applaud their contributions to the assemblage and APD. Officer Brooks and Officer York, occupation good done! "