Adrenaline levels skyrocket when cops have to engage in a higher-speed car chase, but just envision how this cop should have felt when he was attempting to apprehend the felonious driver whilst hanging onto the suspect’s vehicle by means of the open door.

The incident took spot in Ferndale, Michigan, final month and was sparked off when officers spotted a Jeep Wrangler speeding and driving erratically close to eight Mile Road. The Jeep was clocked at 30 mph (50 kmh) above the speed limit and the SUV’s wayward behavior recommended to officers that the driver could be drunk.

But what need to have been a typical cease quickly escalated when the police started to suspect that there was anything fishy about the license and registration particulars the driver had handed them. The Jeep was wearing a Michigan manufacturer’s plate but officers but officers failed to locate a VIN on the SUV that matched the particulars in the supplied documents. Unbeknown to them at the time, the Jeep had been stolen months earlier from White Lake Township, but the police did know they necessary to do some much more digging.

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The driver had played it impressively cool so far, but when a single of the officers asked him to get rid of his seatbelt and reached into the vehicle, he fired up the V8 and punched the gas, accelerating away with the cop clinging on by means of the open door.

He didn’t get far, coming to a cease in a parking lot with he and the cop wrestling in the driver’s seat, the engine screaming away, but the Jeep not moving. Eventually the second officer from the original cease catches up with the pair in his cop vehicle and aids handcuff the fleeing driver. It turns out that the driver currently had warrants out on him for fraud and concealing stolen house, but he now he has a bunch of felony charges to deal with which includes resisting and obstructing police and fleeing. The officer taken on the undesirable thrill ride suffered a knee injury but was reported to have returned to operate by the time the video was posted.

H/T to Road &amp Track, Oakland Press