An Overland Park, KS, man was arrested April 27 after he struck a MoDOT truck with the 2018 Acura that he was driving on southbound I-35 at the 64 mile marker.
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James Carpenter, 40, was taken to Daviess-DeKalb County Regional Jail for leaving scene of accident, resisting/interfering with arrest for felony, and operating motor vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner involving an accident. Bond was denied.
According to court documents, the Acura driven by Carpenter rear-ended a MoDOT truck, leaving the left side mangled and the axle and left wheel demolished. At the scene troopers were advised by a MoDOT worker that Carpenter had fled on foot into the woods west of the crash.
A search was initiated without success. Later in the evening, law enforcement took Carpenter into custody after the Cameron CERT dog team flushed him from the woods following a short foot chase. Carpenter was taken into custody at 8:26 p.m.
During processing the following morning, Carpenter stated that he regretted his decision to flee the scene and that he found many ticks after his time in the woods.
Paperwork inside the vehicle revealed it was leased and being returned to Jay Wolfe Acura of Kansas City. The paperwork listed Carpenter as a dealer representative handling the lease exchange for a customer in West Des Moines, Iowa.
The probable cause statement says a supervisor at Jay Wolfe Acura told law enforcement that Carpenter had called him, informed him the vehicle had been in an accident and told him a tow truck had been called.