SNELLVILLE, Ga. — A speeding stop in Snellville turned into a chase that hit 120 mph and ended with a crash that caught several drivers who had nothing to do with it, police say.
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The crash happened just after 1 a.m. on August 8 at Hewatt Road and Stone Mountain Highway.
Lashika Moseley was in her Durango with her dog in the back seat. She had a green light and had just started into the intersection.
“It was just mayhem, literal mayhem,” Moseley said.
She had moved about seven feet into the intersection when the gray Jaguar came through from the east and slammed into the car in front of her.
“When he hit her, he tapped her, spin her car around, and she hit the white car head on,” Moseley said. “He kept going.”
Snellville police say the driver was Daijaun Jarvis, 24. An officer clocked him at 84 mph in a 35 mph zone on Georgia Highway 10 near Fountain Drive and turned on his lights before the car ever passed him, according to the report.
“He had to be going well over a hundred,” Moseley said. “I’ve never seen nothing like that.”
Jarvis sped up, according to the officer’s report. The pursuit reached speeds over 120 mph, and Jarvis lost a front tire against concrete medians and kept driving.
His arrest warrant says he struck two cars and caused a five-car crash before his Jaguar became disabled on a sidewalk.
Officers wrote that they pulled him from the smoking car, that he fought them on the ground and reached for their guns, and that he told them he was drunk.
Debris took out Moseley’s headlight. She has been changing how she drives ever since.
“I am okay with not driving at night right now,” Moseley said.
Jarvis is being held at the Gwinnett County Jail on 14 charges. A judge denied bond on both felony counts, calling him a danger to person or community.
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