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Chase on Gulf Freeway ends in a crash
06:37 AM CDT on Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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HOUSTON – A rush-hour police chase ended in a crash on the Gulf Freeway Tuesday afternoon.

 

Chase on Gulf Freeway ends in a crash like so many chases before it, the end result was a mess of twisted metal, broken glass and high blood pressure -- at least for Chris McCann, who was sitting at the light on the I-45 North feeder road at Cullen just before 5 p.m. when the suspect came crashing through.

A total of three cars were hit by the suspect's truck as he fled from police. The construction gear he was hauling was strewn everywhere. Police think the truck may have been stolen.

"A split-second. I didn't even have time to look in the rear view mirrors it was just so quick," McCann said of the crash.

It was the construction gear that damaged McCann’s car.

"Ladders came flying at my car and I ducked. Then I saw police coming with the drawn guns," McCann said.

Police say the chase started after they received a suspicious vehicle call from a neighborhood that has had plenty of burglaries. The deputy found the vehicle, a red truck, parked between two vacant duplex properties on Texas Street in the East End.

When the deputy asked the two men in the truck for their identification, the first suspect bolted on foot and the second took off in the truck.

"One of the subjects turned and ran on foot. As he began to flee, the deputy gave chase. At that time he turned and saw the second subject get into his patrol car," said Precinct 6 Constable Corporal JW Caldwell.

Caldwell said the deputy tried to get back to his car, but the suspect had other plans.

"(The suspect) moved the patrol car back so he could get the truck out of the driveway. He got back into the truck and then fled in the vehicle," said Caldwell.

The chase ripped through skinny neighborhood streets for more than two miles at speeds over 50 mph before ending in the chain-reaction crash at Cullen and the North Freeway.
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