Crime & Safety
Not So Fast: Greenfield Police Release Footage from High-Speed Chase
When an officer tries to pull over the suspect in a stolen SUV, a high-speed chase ensues. Watch how the officer stops the fleeing vehicle.
GREENFIELD — Greenfield police posted dramatic footage of a high-speed chase of a stolen vehicle in which the pursuing officer forces the stolen vehicle to crash.
Police posted the video online Saturday of the chase that happened on May 6.
The officer tried to pull over an SUV stolen from a car dealership, only to have the suspect flee at up to 90 miles per hour.
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Police forced the stolen vehicle to crash using the "pursuit intervention technique" in which the officer takes the passenger front side of their car and pushes it into the driver side rear quarter panel of the stolen SUV.
The suspect's vehicle is nudged off course, spins out, and crashes.
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According to the Greenfield P.D., all four of the suspects fled on foot after the vehicle crashed. In this case,the vehicle had been stolen in a burglary to a car dealership, one of the suspects was on GPS monitoring for a carjacking where he had attacked an elderly woman and another suspect was later reported to have been firing a gun out the window of this vehicle while driving in his neighborhood.
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