{"id":48374,"date":"2025-11-11T17:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/48374\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:39:20","slug":"driver-slams-into-oakland-county-store-backs-up-crashes-over-and-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/48374\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver slams into Oakland County store, backs up, crashes over and over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">ROYAL OAK, Mich. \u2013 A driver slammed into a store in Oakland County, maneuvered and tried to back out, and then crashed into it again, over and over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Royal Oak police released dash cam video of the suspected drunk driver plowing into the Ulta Beauty on Sunday following a chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Police initially responded to the area of W Fourth Street and S Center Street just before 1 a.m. on Nov. 9 for a report of a person driving their car on train tracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to police, the driver, who police identified as 26-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/11\/royal-oak-woman-arrested-after-suv-crashes-into-ulta-beauty-during-police-chase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/11\/royal-oak-woman-arrested-after-suv-crashes-into-ulta-beauty-during-police-chase\/\">Katrina Deann-Renee Patterson<\/a> of Canton, refused to cooperate when officers arrived at the scene. Officers said they noticed one of the car\u2019s tires was going flat and saw an open container of alcohol in the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">When officers asked for her driver\u2019s license, Patterson allegedly drove away northbound on Washington Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Police then chased after the woman west on Farnum Avenue to Oakridge Avenue, which ended at an alley parallel to northbound Woodward Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Officials said she turned into the alley, where she drove and crashed into the Ulta Beauty off Woodward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">After Patterson initially drove into the store, a newly released video showed the car repeatedly backing up and driving through the store, eventually ramming into a police car in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">You can watch the chase and crash at the beginning of this article.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Patterson was then arrested. A man riding as a passenger in the car was also arrested, but was later released with a citation for having open alcohol in a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Police believe Patterson was driving under the influence. They said her blood results are pending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On Monday, Nov. 10, Patterson was arraigned in the 44th District Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">She faces multiple felony charges, including fleeing police, assaulting officers, and malicious destruction of property and a building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to police, her criminal history includes a 2023 conviction for operating while intoxicated in Port Huron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Bond was set at $50,000 cash, no 10%, and her next court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Police said no officers were injured, and both Patterson and the passenger were medically evaluated for minor injuries from the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROYAL OAK, Mich. \u2013 A driver slammed into a store in Oakland County, maneuvered and tried to back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,904,145,144,5285],"class_list":{"0":"post-48374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-county","10":"tag-oakland-headlines","11":"tag-oakland-news","12":"tag-royal-oak"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}