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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Woman, 70, hurt, cars damaged in chase in East Mount Airy

Inquirer staff report:

A teenager fleeing police in a stolen SUV slammed into a car at an intersection in East Mount Airy this morning, seriously injuring its 70-year-old female driver, police said.

The 18-year-old thief was arrested after he smashed into two other cars and the SUV, its front end mangled and without one wheel, came to a grinding a halt on Anderson Street off East Mount Airy Avenue, police said.

The woman, who suffered fractures in the 8:30 a.m. crash, was reported in stable condition at Albert Einstein Medical Center.

Police were chasing the stolen SUV when it slammed into the woman's car with such impact the vehicle ended up on the sidewalk.

The teenager, not yet identified, is expected to be charged with car theft, assault and other offenses.

Read more breaking news in our From The Source blog.

Posted by Inquirer Online Desk @ 9:39 AM  Permalink | 13 comments
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Posted 11:46 AM, 10/22/2009
daddysgirl
THANK GOD THEY CAUGHT THE FOOL, I WILL SAY A PRAYER FOR THE WOMAN, THESE MEN OUR THERE ARE SOMETHING ELSE
Posted 12:43 PM, 10/22/2009
Wassup!
I thought cops weren't supposed to be doing these high-speed chases anymore? I read that somewhere.
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Posted 01:28 PM, 10/22/2009
CrazyIvan
High speed chases are totally necessary: if the bad guys know the cops can't chase them, they'll just commit their crimes and run. The police have to be able to capture criminals.
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Posted 01:57 PM, 10/22/2009
Leapinliz
Yet another cloaca in this world full of cloacae.......
Posted 03:21 PM, 10/22/2009
Emacee1701
A kid goes joy riding and thrill-crazed cops playing cowboy turn it into a tragedy. Of course, nothing will happen to the cops. In a perfect world, they'd be fired and the injured woman would sue the cops for everything they have (sue the cops, not the city). The kid's mistake was he didn't go to the police academy. Then he could do all the joy-ridding he wanted with impunity.
Posted 06:14 PM, 10/22/2009
Tatts
Emacee1701: What a perverse way to look at the situation (and wrong). A: The kid wasn't "joy riding"; he stole an SUV. He's a thief. B: The cops weren't "thrill-crazed", the kid was. C; The cops were doing their jobs--OUR jobs, for US. D: The police didn't know if this kid was armed, high, crazy, etc. They put their lives on the line, and they enter such confrontations reluctantly. E: If they'd let him go, he might have had the same or a similar accident--scum like him don't value anything, not property, life, etc. You need to place the blame where it's due--on the thief, and ONLY the thief.
Posted 06:22 PM, 10/22/2009
mjs438
Guess the police should just let criminasl run around loose. Here is the story. The car that was reported stolen.....the thief took the ladies keys two days ago after she dropped them taking out the trash. Would You you believe the lady seen her car being driven down her street. She followed the car and called the police. The chase was on and ended at Mt. Airy and Anderson. Thief was caught in the 400 block of East Mt. Airy. Now you know that thief was cruising the ladies neighborhood to break into her homeu. What do you want to police to do...I know what they should do - is stop locking up these thugs and serve street justice.....problem solved.
Posted 09:08 PM, 10/22/2009
bobrown
I was there - the stolen vehicle was being pursued by the police at about 50 mph when the vehicle entered the intersection. I was in the intersection - the driver of the stolen vehicle avoided me only to hit the elderly lady on the other side of the intersection. If the driver had his us in the passenger side, I would be dead. It was that fast. Like you see on TV - no kidding. I'm extremely lucky to be here today. I saw the whole thing go down. The police looked to be trying to trap the driver at the intersection - one car in front and one car at the back. The teen (teenager.. why would the police pressure a teen into this is beyond me) panicked and hit the gas. I heard the car coming on and told my partner to stop and the car flew by us and hit the woman and other parked vehicles. Thank God there was a doctor in a car or house near by. I saw everything - there's NO WAY a stolen car is worth a life ... I hope the elderly woman that was struck buy the stolen car lives on. I'm glad I'm alive. If the driver of the stolen vehicle would have hit us in the passenger door at that speed, I would be dead. Why did this happen? Bob Brown
Posted 11:10 PM, 10/22/2009
Fernando08
I am regularly driving through from Cheltenham Av at 309 to get to the Lincoln Drive. The speed at which unchased drivers pursue me is regularly reckless, exceeding whatever is posted by 15 or 20 mph. I see too many drivers in residential neighborhoods, in and out of the city drive like they have a death wish. Don't blame the police, the fool would be driving like that with or without the police in hot pursuit. Plenty of drivers are approaching 40 and exceeding 55mph on the Lincoln Dr. Please, who are the cop haters trying to kid. Like you drive the posted 25 anywhere is the city except when you break in front of you own home to park the car. Hypocrites. Lock the thief up for attempted murder with a car as a weapon.
Posted 06:26 AM, 10/23/2009
brian stewart
Rules are made to be followed, the Police haver a rule NO PURSUITS IN THE CITY, how hard is that to understand NO PURSUITS the cops don't like that rule but thats too bad if you can't follow it be a fireman, the women will now sue the city and poice which she should and she will win because of the NO PERSUIT RULE, start hiring cops who can understand the rules if you don't like the rules quit, the best part of this is the bad guy will get nothing for stealing a 40.000 thousand dollar car, had he went in and robbed a bank of a thousand dollars he would go to jail for 5 years the laws are a joke the judges are a joke and the system which lets car thieves off are a joke.
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