It’s that time of night when employees of the West Mobile post office at Wesley Avenue and Airport Blvd would be loading and unloading trucks out back.
But Monday night, a different truck would enter the picture… a white Ford pickup that would slam into two parked cars at the post office’s back door.
USA student Dallas Trehern was studying in the Pinehurst neighborhood when that truck, with police in pursuit, sped by his home.
“And all of a sudden I hear zooming going down the neighborhood… It’s like a motorcycle. And all of a sudden, my room is filled with flashing police lights,” he says. “So, I go running outside and all I see is police cars speeding down our neighborhood. Neighbors are coming out saying, what is going on.?
What was going on, say police, was the pursuit of a truck reported stolen more than a week ago from another part of town.
The driver lost control on Wesley as he was approaching the post office, the barreled up an embankment slamming into two parked cars.
Leaving a woman still buckled in in the front seat, the driver took off on foot, say police. But he didn’t get far.
He was under arrest Monday night.
But it was a very close call for one worker at the post office who, when that truck hit the cars, heard the noise, opened the door and came outside.
And that’s when she found herself face to face with the man behind the wheel.
