Motorcyclist Arrested After Freeway Chase
A speeding motorist clocked at more than 100 m.p.h. was arrested Monday evening after leading California Highway Patrol officers on a motorcycle chase that started in Thousand Oaks and ended in Santa Barbara County after he ran out of gas, the CHP said.
Shane Flaxman, 26, of Van Nuys was arrested on suspicion of reckless driving and evading arrest at the conclusion of the 45-minute chase, CHP Sgt. Ted Brummett said.
The chase began on the Ventura Freeway near the Ventu Park Road exit, where Ventura County sheriff’s deputies spotted a motorcycle traveling north at a speed in excess of 100 m.p.h.
A sheriff’s car began pursuit and was joined by two CHP officers on motorcycles.
Sheriff’s deputies and CHP officers temporarily lost sight of the motorcycle when it got off the freeway at Seaward Avenue in Ventura, but then resumed the chase five minutes later when the motorcycle ventured back onto the freeway headed toward Santa Barbara, Brummett said.
The chase ended in Summerland, when the motorcycle left the freeway because the cyclist ran out of gas, he said.
Late Monday, Flaxman was being held in the Santa Barbara County Jail in lieu of a $540 bond, a jail official said.
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