Derrick Row was eager to chase cars who fled from him when he first became a Minnesota state trooper — but a pursuit early in his career changed his mindset.

In the early morning hours, Row was chasing a driver on the freeway who fled to avoid a speeding ticket when the driver hit another car. The car that wasn’t involved in the pursuit spun out and the driver, who was 25 weeks pregnant, left in an ambulance.

“That really made me think, there's real risks of doing this and actually hurting someone, so how worth it was it for that one speeder that just didn't want to get a speeding ticket?” Row said.

It has been years since that crash, and Row doesn’t know what happened to the bystander who was taken to the hospital. Today, he said he’s more cautious about pursuits.

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