GRANT COUNTY, Ky. — A driver who police believe was under the influence of alcohol fled Kentucky State Police troopers at over 150 mph before rear-ending another driver; the crash engulfed the second vehicle in flames, killing two people, according to arrest documents.
The Grant County Coroner's Office identified the two people killed as 32-year-old Joshua Turza from Avon, Ohio and 30-year-old Meagan Spurgeon from North Olmsted, Ohio.
The traffic citation filled out by KSP troopers said Jody Lee Miller was spotted by a KSP trooper in Grant County on June 9 at around 11:04 p.m. According to the citation, Miller, driving a 2017 BMW, passed the trooper on I-75 going around 132 mph.
The trooper activated his emergency equipment and tried to pull Miller over, but Miller refused to stop and, instead, accelerated to around 153 mph, the citation said.
According to the citation, Miller then collided with the rear of a 2013 Kia which "became engulfed."
In court on Tuesday, a KSP trooper testified to what he saw on the dash camera footage from the trooper involved in the pursuit.
"You can see headlight beams, you can see where they're turning to face towards the right-hand side of the roadway and then you see the explosion from the vehicle that is struck by the BMW, burst into flames," said the KSP trooper.
The driver and a passenger inside the Kia died as a result of the crash, the citation said.
Miller's BMW flipped onto its top and came to rest in the right side of the northbound lanes of I-75, while the Kia ended up on the left shoulder of the same side of the highway.
When troopers freed Miller from his vehicle, the citation says a trooper was able to smell the odor of alcoholic beverages on him.
After he was arrested, the citation says Miller told troopers he'd spent the weekend in North Carolina and was on his way home to Cincinnati. On his way, he told troopers he stopped at an Applebees in Knoxville, Tenn. and had one shot of Grand Marier and "what he remembered as a Blue Moon beer to drink," reads the citation.
Miller told troopers he remembered stopping at a truck stop along I-75 at some point after that and remembers leaving the parking lot, but he didn't remember anything else until he was in the back of a KSP vehicle, according to the citation.
We have reached out to request dash camera footage from troopers' chase and interactions with Miller, but were told by KSP that information would not be released pending the active investigation.
KSP troopers obtained a warrant to draw Miller's blood and test it, but the results of those tests have not come back yet.
Miller is currently charged with OVI, vehicular homicide, wanton endangerment, fleeing or evading police and excessive speeding. He is being held in the Grant County Detention Center on a $1 million bond.
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