A Boone County hit and run crash involving a deputy’s cruiser, sent four people to the hospital.
On Monday, December 7, 2015 the four-vehicle collision including a Boone County Sheriff’s cruiser happened on westbound I-275 at the 3.3 mile marker in Hebron, Kentucky.
29-year-old Deputy Jacob Ganshirt was parked in the right emergency lane with his overhead emergency light bar on behind two other cars that had been involved in a collision. Ganshirt was sitting in his cruiser collecting information on the prior collision when a 2006 Chrysler 300M driven by 18-year-old Jose Rodas slammed into the rear of his cruiser propelling it into the car in front of him and that car into the one in front of it.
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Rodas fled on foot but was soon captured near the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport where he was arrested.
Ganshirt was trapped in his patrol car for a short while until arriving Airport police officers assisted him out. Rodas was charged with Reckless driving, failure of owner to maintain required insurance, no operators license, operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, possession of open alcoholic beverage container in motor vehicle, wanton endangerment, assault and leaving the scene of an accident-failure to render aid or assistance.
All four parties were taken to the hospital for treatment.
