Stolen pickup chase ends in Everett with collision, fire
May 13, 2013, 8:18 AM | Updated: 10:21 am
A stolen pickup chase ended in Everett where the truck knocked a car into a natural gas line that caught fire.
“The pickup truck as it came into the intersection collided with another vehicle,” says Everett Police Officer Aaron Snell. “The pickup truck flipped upside down and slid through the intersection. The other vehicle ended up going on its side and sliding down and it ruptured a natural gas line.”
Officers and firefighters moved the car to rescue the woman driving the other vehicle. The 40-year-old Mukilteo woman was taken to a Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with critical injuries.
Police say the driver of the pickup truck, a 33-year-old Seattle man, was taken to an Everett hospital with less-serious injuries and faces multiple possible felonies.
The chase started about 11:20 p.m. Sunday in Bothell when the pickup truck driver refused to stop, hit a car in a parking lot and backed into a police car before fleeing toward Everett.
Police say they’re aware of witnesses who took photos and video from the incident; they’re requesting those images for their investigation.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
