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Truck driver leads multi-agency high-speed chase after refusing to move from emergency lane [Video]

A wild chase unfolded Wednesday afternoon involving multiple law enforcement agencies and a semi-truck. 

Chris Ensworth told FOX 5 Atlanta he had just gotten off his lunch break and was heading back to work when he saw the truck near the I-75 exit ramp and State Road 20 in Cartersville. 

“I saw a semi stopped surrounded by at least 20 cop cars and cops had their guns drawn,” said Ensworth. 

It all started in Emerson. Police there said the driver of the semi was parked in the emergency lane to one of the exit ramps and was warned to move, or he’d get a ticket. 

Police said the driver ignored the warning. When law enforcement came back later, and he was still there, they asked him for his license. 

Officers said the driver refused, locked himself in his truck, backed into a patrol car, and drove off. 

The chase was on.

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