It seems that some people go out of their way to get into trouble. That's more or less what happened the night that Nashville Police Officer Floyd Hyde was on duty.
有些人似乎不择手段地惹麻烦，纳什维尔警官弗洛伊德·海德当值的那晚或多或少就是这样。
"I was on the way to a personal-injury accident in West Nashville. As I got onto Highway 40, blue lights and siren going, I fell in behind a gold Pontiac Firebird that suddenly seemed to take off quickly down the highway. The driver somehow panicked at the sight of me. He was going more than a hundred miles an hour and began passing cars on the shoulder."
“我当时正在前往西纳什维尔的一场人身伤害事故的路上。当我开上40号公路时，蓝色的灯光和警笛响起，我落在一辆金色的庞蒂亚克火鸟车后面，它似乎突然要在高速公路上快速起飞。司机一看到我就惊慌失措。他以每小时100多英里的速度行驶，开始超过一辆辆小车。"
But Hyde couldn't go after him. Taking care of injured people is always more important than worrying about speeders, so the officer had to stay on his way to the accident. But he did try to keep the Firebird in sight as he drove, hoping another nearby unit would be able to step in and stop the speeding car. As it turned out, keeping the Firebird in sightwas not that difficult. Every turn the Pontiac made was the very turn the officer needed to get to the accident scene.
但海德不能追他。照顾受伤的人总是比考虑超速者更重要，所以他只能留在继续前往事故现场。但他试着让火鸟保持在视线范围内，希望附近有别的小组人员能够介入并阻止超速行驶的汽车。事实证明，保持火鸟的视线并不是那么困难。庞蒂亚克的每一个转弯都是警察到达事故现场所需要的。
Hyde followed the Pontiac all the way to his destination. At that point he found another unit had already arrived at the accident scene. His help wasn't needed. Now he was free to try to stop the driver of the firebird, who by this time had developed something new to panick about.
海德一路跟着庞蒂亚克到达目的地。这时，他发现另一组人员已经抵达事故现场，不需要他的帮助。现在，他可以去阻止火鸟司机，而此时他已经发现了一些新的恐慌。
"Just about that time," Hyde says, "I saw fire coming out from under that car, with blue smoke and oil going everywhere. He's blown his engine. Now he had to stop."
“就在那个时候，”海德说，“我看到那辆车下面冒出了火，到处都是蓝烟和油。他的发动机爆缸了，现在不得不停下来。”
"After I arrested him, I asked him why he was running. He told me he didn't have a driver's license.”
“我逮捕他后，问他为什么要逃跑。他告诉我他没有驾照。”
That accident cost the driver of the Firebird plenty-a thousand dollars for the new engine-not to mention the charges for driving without a license, attempting to run away, and dangerous driving.
那起事故让火鸟司机损失惨重——新发动机的费用高达1000美元，更不用说无证驾驶、企图逃跑和危险驾驶的代价了。
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