(GoRealNewsNow.com) – While chasing two cars for over two hours across Los Angeles, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) performed a PIT maneuver that ended dramatically in a fiery crash.
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Video footage showed the pursuit involving two vehicles, beginning with a possibly stolen black sedan and ending with a white sedan that lost a wheel and sparked as it scraped the road.
According to ABC 7, the chase started shortly after 8 p.m. when Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers began following the black sedan, suspected of being stolen due to its license plates.
Furthermore, the vehicle moved at mostly legal speeds through neighborhoods in South Gate, Huntington Park, and East Los Angeles, occasionally running red lights but otherwise not driving recklessly.
Despite the presence of at least five police SUVs, officers held off on executing a PIT maneuver early in the chase due to concerns the suspects might be armed.
The outlet stated that the situation escalated after about 75 minutes when the driver of the black sedan abandoned it in a commercial parking lot and switched to a waiting white sedan.
The second vehicle sped off, reaching over 75 mph on surface streets and more than 100 mph on freeways, including the 101 and 710, even driving without headlights at times.
Additionally, the chase continued south on the freeway towards Long Beach, with the CHP taking over from the LAPD as the suspects headed back north on the 110 and onto surface streets in southeast Los Angeles.
Even though the brief moment the vehicle seemed to crash and a suspect fled on foot, the white sedan got onto the 105 Freeway. It was there that the CHP performed the PIT maneuver, causing the vehicle to spin out and lose a wheel.
The chase ended with two men and a woman exiting the disabled vehicle and surrendering to law enforcement.
Although the freeway was blocked for some time, the suspects were taken into custody. The LAPD later confirmed that the original driver of the black Lexus was not in the white vehicle but was apprehended separately.
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