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  Can you hear me now? web posted May 30, 2007 TRENTON – A cellular phone is a great way to stay in touch with others, it is also a great way for others to stay in touch with you, including law enforcement. Saturday evening an Edgefield County Sheriff’s Deputy was on his way to a noise complaint when a man on a motorcycle passed him going about 100 mph on Highway 19 near Trenton. The Deputy turned around and turned on his blue lights to make a traffic stop but the rider was not going to stop and sped up. The officer broke off the pursuit but radioed Highway Patrol and other deputies of the direction of travel of the motorcycle. A short time later a call was dispatched that a motorcycle had hit a car head-on at the intersection of Highway 25 and 19. Before deputies could arrive, the rider of the motorcycle got back on the now damaged motorcycle and fled the scene. Once officers arrived they found that the motorcyclist tried to make a right hand turn on to Highway 121 towards Johnston while fleeing the first deputy. Unable to make the turn proper due to his speed he entered the southbound lane where a truck was able to avoid the collision but the second car in line could not and was struck in the front and then the hood. The motorcycle fell to the ground, along with the rider, and the rider’s cell phone. When the rider got back on the motorcycle he did not notice he dropped his cell phone. It was the cell phone that lead deputies and the South Carolina Highway Patrol to Rodney Van Stevens, 27, of Trenton and the later discovery of the motorcycle that belonged to his neighbor. After calling numbers and making the connection to recent calls to the phone Mr. Stevens was arrested and charged with reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident. The car he struck suffered an estimated $2,000 in damages. Officials said Mr. Stevens confessed to the event. The amount of damage done to the motorcycle was not available. The neighbor had just bought the motorcycle and had not even made his first payment on the loan police said. He told police he allowed Mr. Stevens to ride it to the end of Courtney Road and back to his house and was unaware of what took place. For
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