Police Arrest 21-year-old After High-Speed Chase

A 21-year-old Monsey man was arrested after he sped off during a traffic stop on Saturday night and crashed at a nearby exit, police said.

The driver was being ticketed for driving 97-mph in a 65-mph zone, when he suddenly accelerated away. The trooper drove after him onto the Garden State Parkway, where the suspect's vehicle overturned, as he tried to exit  the Schoolhouse Road ramp, state police said.

The driver and his three passengers were not injured.

He was arrested and charged with third-degree unlawful fleeing a police officer, driving while impaired by drugs, resisting arrest, unlawful possession of marijuana and second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. He was also issued the original speeding ticket.