Seattle police car nearly avoids collision, stolen SUV hits building instead
Jul 8, 2013, 8:27 AM | Updated: 8:37 am
A Seattle police officer narrowly escaped a collision with an SUV early Sunday morning, but the SUV and its passengers weren’t as lucky.
The driver and a passenger of a stolen 2002 Chevy Avalanche were speeding south on Rainier Avenue when they nearly stuck the cop’s patrol car at 2:15 a.m.
According to police, the car was traveling so fast that the officer lost sight of the SUV after the near-accident. But just a few minutes later officer located the SUV at Rainier Avenue South and South Charlestown where it had crashed into a building.
Seattle Fire responded to the scene where they had to cut the 26-year-old male driver and 22-year-old female passenger out of the stolen SUV, and were transported to Harborview Medical Center. The driver suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries while the passenger suffered only minor injuries.
Police say there was also significant damage done to the building.
