LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Indiana State Police have released the identity of a UPS driver who was killed in a crash on Interstate 65 South in Clarksville on Tuesday.
Patrick Dene Harvey, 25, of Brownsburg, Indiana, died after his UPS tractor-trailer crashed into another tractor-trailer that was stopped in traffic in the southbound lanes of I-65S, near Lewis and Clark Parkway in Clarksville due to an earlier crash.
Police said a co-driver was in the sleeper cab of the semi at the time of the crash and was taken to University of Louisville Hospital with "severe injuries" but is expected to be OK, according to ISP.
The traffic backup was caused by a prior crash involving a vehicle that was fleeing from police.
ISP said shortly after midnight Scott County deputies began pursuing a speeding driver, 27-year-old Dylin Lee Taylor, of Charlestown, Indiana, who was traveling up to 120 miles per hour on the interstate.
Police set up stop sticks in Clark County, but said the suspect's vehicle continued at around 80 to 90 miles per hour and eventually crashed into an ISP trooper's car.
That trooper, identified on Wednesday as Trooper Justin Mears, a 9-year veteran of the department, was transported to University Hospital and later released.
Police said Taylor fled the scene on foot, jumping off the interstate onto U.S. 31. With the help of K-9 units from several police agencies, Taylor was eventually found inside a bus near the Sportsdrome Speedway, police said, where he was taken into custody.
A woman and a child were found in the vehicle Taylor was driving, ISP said. They were taken to local hospitals to be treated for minor injuries.
Taylor is facing 10 charges, six of them felonies, including battery with bodily injury to a public safety officer, neglect of a dependent resulting in bodily injury, resisting law enforcement with a vehicle and causing serious bodily injury, battery, criminal recklessness, resisting law enforcement, reckless driving, driving while suspended and criminal recklessness.
He is being held at Clark County Jail.
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