Speeding woman arrested after interstate chase
by Tribune Staff
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Courtesy/WCSO - Susanne Meyer
Courtesy/WCSO - Susanne Meyer
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RENO –– A California woman is under arrest Monday after a 100 mph car chase that started in Truckee, Calif. and ended as her car traveled over spike strips near West McCarran Boulevard.

Susanne Marie Meyer, 59 of Paradise, Calif. was pulled over by California Highway Patrol (CHP) troopers Monday morning and cited for speeding. The woman was then found speeding again, but this time Meyer would not pull over when police turned on their sirens.

Meyer allegedly also left a California gas station without paying.

The chase started about 10 a.m. Monday. When Meyer continued traveling into Nevada at speeds clocked at more than 100 mph, the CHP Truckee office called the Nevada Highway Patrol. The vehicle was described as a blue 1999 Mercury Sable sedan.

Once in Nevada, the Nevada Highway Patrol set down a set of spike strips near the West McCarran Boulevard interchange, which resulted in three of the four tires becoming safely deflated. Meyer then stopped her vehicle in the left lane of eastbound Interstate 80, just east of the East McCarran Boulevard interchange. She was taken into custody without incident.

Troopers moved her disabled vehicle, which was properly registered to her, into the center median area where a tow truck later removed it.

The original reason for the enforcement stop in California was for speeding at 108 in a 65 mph zone and for failing to pay for fuel at a service station.

Meyers was booked into the Washoe County jail for the two violations she committed in Nevada, eluding a police offer (a felony) and for speeding 95-plus in a 65 mph speed zone.

The CHP will charge her as well with the violations she committed in California, according to NHP spokesman Chuck Allen.

She also had been stopped earlier that morning and was cited by CHP for speeding near the Auburn/Nevada City area.
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