There's obviously more to it than that, but the bottom line is that I could have walked away from it always wondering if some day someone was going to find some way to link me to it, or I could accept the fact that I messed up and deal with it.

The ironic thing is that I've always been a huge advocate of pulling over, also citing that riders who run make things harder for the rest of us, but now I'm one of those guys. A split second decision exercising poor judgement can change the rest of your life!

I got away. I rode my ass off, and the officer had too much pride to back off when it got too dangerous for him to continue chasing. It was his fault that he crashed, but I'm the root cause since he wouldn't have been chasing if I hadn't been running. I hate the fact that he didn't have to assume any responsibility for being in the wrong just as I had to do. I think we both messed up... The officers in this county have a lot of leeway when it comes to a chase, and it's up to their discretion, but he used poor judgement just like I did.

Yes, that's why I was gone. Now you know