DRIVER HAS 5 ACCIDENTS IN 21 MINUTES

Sunday was not a day of rest for Michael Turner, 28, of Cape Girardeau.

Cape Girardeau police reported that Turner was involved in five vehicle accidents in 21 minutes Sunday afternoon -- at Big Bend Road and Green Acres, at Mount Auburn and Kingshighway, at Kingshighway and Lexington, and he struck both a moving vehicle and a parked vehicle at West Cape Rock Drive and Lexington.

Turner allegedly drove away from the scene of the first four collisions, and a description of his vehicle went out on the police radio.

A Missouri Highway Patrol preliminary report said patrolman Matthew Keeney spotted Turner driving eastbound on West Cape Drive and witnessed the fifth collision, which disabled Turner's vehicle. Turner then fled on foot, and the trooper pulled over and pursued him on foot.

Turner was arrested for one drug-related DWI, four counts of leaving the scene of an accident, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, resisting arrest and assaulting a law officer.