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The arresting officers never knew what happened until the last moment when the man they took into custody suddenly opened the right front car door of the moving vehicle and jumped. The man was hit by another car soon thereafter. This event took place recently in Colorado Springs, on an Interstate 25 freeway exit near Fontanero St.
Apparently the man, John Winkler, who was arrested for two felony charges, had his seatbelt on and handcuffed. But in his determination to get free from the police, he wriggled out of the seatbelt, opened the car door and jumped, according to the police officers who were investigating the incident.
Coincidentally, another car was speeding in the opposite direction and hit him as he was running on the road after getting up from his fall. The other car’s windshield was shattered by the impact from Winkler’s body and the female driver who was on the other car suffered injuries sustained from the broken windshield.
Police explained that Winkler was in the front passenger seat because the arresting officers were using an unmarked car and not the usual police cruiser. They said that the car used does not have rear door locks like the normal patrol cars used by the police.
Winkler is now at a critical condition inside a hospital following the accident.
