Photo: Destiny Nashay Smith
A 27-year-old Marion County woman is facing several charges after leading law enforcement on a nighttime chase in which she drove at times with no lights on and in the wrong lane of traffic. Destiny Nashay Smith of Flippin is free after posting bond.
According to the probable cause affidavit in the case, a Bull Shoals officer was on patrol the evening of Feb. 28 when he came up behind a vehicle being driven with no tail lights or head lights on. When the officer turned on his emergency lights, the car stopped in the middle of State Highway 178, the driver threw a balled up tissue out of the window and then took off. The officer then activated his siren as he followed Smith’s vehicle. She pulled to the side of the road, but before the officer could exit his patrol car, Smith took off again.
As the pursuit continued, Smith was driving with no lights on in the wrong lane of traffic with speeds in the city of Bull Shoals reaching 80 miles-per-hour. Smith allegedly continued to alternate lanes she was driving in and turning her lights off and on.
As the pursuit continued on State Highway 178 in the Fairview area, a Flippin police officer deployed a spike strip in the highway, disabling three of the tires on Smith’s vehicle, ending the chase.
Smith is charged with felony counts of aggravated assault and fleeing and misdemeanor counts of careless and prohibitive driving and driving left of center.
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