The most boring police chase ever was recorded in Tennessee as a woman slowly drove away from police at 7mph for four hours.
In a typically huge waste of police resources, multiple vehicles and helicopters pursued a woman who had been caught sleeping behind the wheel. When the police tried to arrest her, she took off at a snail’s pace.
According to 28-year-old Kaitlyn Wray, she made her escape because “I’m already on paper for ten years anyway.” So, rather than pull over, she thought she would start the slowest police chase ever.
Around 4 A.M., @FOXNashville captured this car being followed by nearly 20 @MNPDNashville cruisers on Jefferson Street.
— Madeleine Nolan (@MaddieNolanTV) July 1, 2025
Police confirm they’re tracking a woman driving a stolen vehicle, moving at just 8 mph with all four tires flattened.
This slow-speed pursuit has been going… pic.twitter.com/PMSE5ivVSP
Footage from the scene shows a parade of police cars trailing after Wray as she rolls along an empty highway. All four of her tyres were blown out, and it was unlikely she could go much faster. But, rather than the police boxing her in, they pursued her for more than four hours.
Silly Slow Police Situation
The slowest police chase in the world was caused by the fact that Metro police aren’t allowed to perform pit maneuvers. This is the process of pushing a vehicle off the road with another car. They had to wait for the Tennessee Highway Patrol to arrive and stop her vehicle.
But, it begs the question, with the police chase being as slow as it was, couldn’t someone simply walk up to the car and open the doors, or break a window? At seven miles an hour, they could catch it. Even using a bicycle would have been more productive.
Instead, the police wasted hours of their time and thousands in taxpayer money chasing the slow woman. One car, without the helicopters, would have been a much wiser use of time and money.
After the slowest police chase, Wray was eventually pulled over and arrested. She has quite the rap sheet, too. Wray has prior convictions of aggravated burglary, cocaine possession, criminal simulation, and multiple theft convictions. She is also on probation for forgery. Now, she can add two counts of vehicle theft, reckless endangerment, and four counts of felony evading arrest.
It appears she’s as bad a criminal as she is a driver.