On Saturday evening at approximately 7:14pm, Alaska State Troopers observed a northbound black Mitsubishi speeding on the Mitchell Expressway in Fairbanks and turned on their lights and attempted to stop the speeding vehicle.

As the trooper turned his vehicle around on the expressway to pursue and stop the vehicle, the mitsubishi accelerated away leaving the expressway and entering the Old Airport Way offramp. The trooper exited the expressway using the same offramp, made the sharp 90 degree turn on the road, but lost sight of the vehicle until he noticed a cloud of dust in his rearview mirror.

After entering the offramp, the speeding Mitsubishi had failed to negotiate the 90 degree turn and impacted a four-foot-high dirt hill as the vehicle left the roadway. The vehicle launched from the dirt pile and traveled 31 through the air crashing into the second floor of a utility building there.

After crashing into the building, the vehicle fell backwards out of the building and crashed to the ground.

The driver of the vehicle, now identified as 34-year-old Fairbanks resident Christopher Turco, was uninjured in the crash and fled the scene of the accident, leaving his mother, a 7-year-old niece and 6-year-old nephew, all with injuries in the car. Those occupants suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries in the crash.

Turco was apprehended by Airport Police, Fairbanks Police and State Troopers approximately a quarter-mile away in a wooded area a short time later.

An investigation into Turco would find that he had four outstanding warrants for his arrest that totaled over $12,500.

Turco was arrested and charged with Felony Elude, Assault, VCR, Warrants arrests, Driving while License Revoked, and MVC-I.