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Who she was and that she was under arrest because she had warrants. >> he orders zeigler out of her truck, but she has other plans. >> she said i'm not going and she hit the gas and the truck goes in reverse, and i put my hand out to keep the truck from pushing me over. >> he tries to reach for his taser and then his gun, but there's no time. zeigler is on the run. >> she flies by yelling at me. as she's driving by, she said, quote, unquote, just [ bleep ] shoot me and then drives off. >> zeigler's vehicle is going fast leaving a cloud of smoke in its wake, trying to shake the officer, zeigler...

She can neither stop the truck nor get back inside. >> she's running with the truck and she's slipping as she's running and she can't control it. >> zeigler tries to keep up with the moving vehicle and it hits a curb for a driveway and it hits a rail road tie that's next to the sidewalk and in that jarring motion she loses the grip and she goes under trunk and the tire's up under her neck. >> he raced over to zeigler's truck. i check her. she's not breathing and just the sheer weight of the vehicle and obviously she's not going to be breathing much at all. >> it becomes a rescue mission as he ...

>> i knew if i didn't get the truck off of her she was not going live. the only thing i had available was to drive it off. it was still running, and i started to hit the accelerator very slow to feather it and all of a sudden she came out from underneath it. >> startled onlookers back away as zeigler's body spins out from under the wheel of the truck. corporal tufty's emt training quickly takes over. >> checked her pulse. she had a pulse and she wasn't breathing really well. hang on, jonah. we're going help you out. we'll get you to the hospital. >> zeigler is alive, but the extent of her inju...

Ending when a woman desperately trying to escape from police runs over herself. >> that's a hard thing to watch for a lot of people. >> january 3, 2011, moses lake, washington. thomas tufty is on the lookout for a woman wanted by police on forgery charges. >> she had multiple warrants for her arrest. i'd gotten a phone call from our dispatch center that let me know that she was on the move in her car. >> that woman is jonah zeigler. tufty has a description of zeigler and her vehicle, and it isn't long before he spots her. >> i saw a pink vest and her head behind the steering wheel. i pulled in...

Prison, but before she goes to jail she has one last encounter to tufty. >> i actually stopped her traffic stop about three months ago. i didn't know it was her, and i just stopped the car for a violation went up, and found out who it was and talked to her for a couple of minutes and she has apologized for what she did in a letter and in person, and she did thank me for saving her life. if there's one thing that i can get across to people is not run from the police and endanger yours or the officer's life to get away. it doesn't end well usually. a man on a crime spree opens fire on police o...