San Diego Sheriff’s Deputy Killed in Wrong-Way Pursuit of Suspected Drunk Driver

by March 1, 2010
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March 1, 2010 – A San Diego County Sheriff’s Deputy trying to catch up to a wrong-way driver on a freeway was killed when his marked SUV rolled several times down a ravine on SR-52, Sheriff William Gore said Sunday. Deputy Ken Collier, 39, died at a hospital shortly after the 3:22 a.m. wreck on the freeway in the mountains between Santee and Tierrasanta, the sheriff announced. A 25-year-old sheriff’s dispatcher who was also in the county SUV, Ryan DeBellis, was injured, the sheriff said. An allegedly drunken driver who was the subject of the chase was caught nearby. Jose Jasso …. » Read more »