Four-Month-Old Ejected From Flipped SUV During 100-MPH Police Chase

Dashcam footage released by Arkansas State Police captures a moment no one should ever witness: a 4-month-old infant being thrown from a Toyota Highlander as it rolls violently across a rural road, struck by a light pole, and comes to rest near live electrical wires. But here’s the part that defies belief—all four children in that vehicle, none older than 6, walked away with only minor injuries.

The May 24 incident unfolded after 28-year-old Tyrice Fletcher allegedly refused to stop for a state trooper and instead accelerated to speeds exceeding 100 MPH, swerving into oncoming traffic along a winding rural route. What followed was the kind of physics-defying crash that usually ends very differently. The Highlander careened through a yard, hit the pole, and flipped multiple times before settling near those live wires.

Troopers responding to the scene found the baby on the ground outside the wreckage and worked quickly to extract the three other children from the mangled vehicle. The fact that a 4-month-old survived being ejected from a rolling SUV speaks either to extraordinary luck or, depending on your perspective, an outcome so improbable it raises uncomfortable questions about how these situations are allowed to unfold in the first place.

Fletcher now faces a steep legal reckoning: felony fleeing, four counts of endangering the welfare of a minor, and a string of gun, drug, and traffic offenses. But charges don’t undo the dashcam footage or the reality that four young children experienced trauma that could’ve been fatal. The video serves as a stark reminder of what happens when a traffic stop escalates into a high-speed pursuit through populated areas—everyone on that road that day was put in danger, not just the children in the fleeing vehicle.

The survival of these four kids is genuinely fortunate. Their injuries were minor, their lives weren’t permanently altered. But the near-tragedy also raises a harder question: at what point do the risks of a pursuit outweigh the offense that triggered the stop in the first place?