A man suspected of driving while impaired struck three Chapel Hill police cruisers while traveling the wrong way on Highway 54 over the weekend.

Chapel Hill Police Lieutenant Josh Mecimore says police were dispatched to a report of a vehicle traveling in the wrong direction on Raleigh Road just before 10 o’clock Saturday night. Mecimore says the vehicle was traveling toward Chapel Hill proper.

Mecimore says officer attempted to stop the vehicle around Meadowmont Lane.

“Officers attempted what’s called a rolling-road block,” Mecimore said, “where you use three police vehicles, typically, or maybe four depending on the configuration of the road, to box the car in and you slow down as a group. And, hopefully, they slow down too.”

Mecimore says that as officers slowed down, the driver attempted to drive through a gap between the cruisers, striking multiple vehicles. He says officers were then able to stop the suspect by executing another maneuver causing the vehicle to spin out.

Mecimore says officers detected a strong odor of alcohol and that emergency crews were called to the scene. The suspect, 43-year-old William Jeffrey Hall, was then transported to the hospital, according to Mecimore.

Hall is now facing 13 charges, including a felony count of speeding to elude arrest and three felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon on a law enforcement officer.

Records show that Hall allegedly struck a power pole in addition to the police cruisers.

Mecimore says that authorities are awaiting results from the state lab in regards to Hall’s blood-alcohol content or other impairing substances.

Hall is scheduled to appear in court on May 13.

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