Man Arrested After Driving Toyota Tundra Onto College Football Field

A Massachusetts man took his pickup truck off-road in a very unconventional way on Thursday, according to the Boulder Police Department: he drove it onto the field of a Big 12 football program.

Around 6:45pm on September 12, dispatchers with the Boulder Police Department began receiving reports of multiple hit-and-run crashes involving a Toyota Tundra near Foothills Parkway and Arapahoe Avenue. After allegedly hitting three vehicles as well as a tree and a stop sign, the driver of the Tundra rammed his way onto Folsom Field — the University of Colorado, Boulder's football stadium, home of the Colorado Buffaloes — in an attempt to escape law enforcement, an official press release from the BPD says.

Multiple witnesses as well as C.U. Boulder Police reportedly attempted to stop the driver of the blue pickup prior to his football field entrance. A CBS News Colorado photographer who happened to be on the scene captured images as the truck eventually came to a stop between the 30 and 40 yard lines, losing its right rear wheel somewhere along the way. After the Tundra's forward progress ceased, the driver exited the vehicle, and police were able to convince the driver to surrender.

BPD identified the suspect as Karl E. Haglund, a 48-year-old man from Massachusetts. He has been booked into Boulder County jail on a list of charges that includes criminal attempt vehicular assault, reckless endangerment, vehicular eluding, leaving the scene of a crash after damage, driving without insurance, and, unsurprisingly, trespassing.

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