Two people ejected from pickup in rollover crash after high-speed police chase in KC
Two people were injured when they were ejected from a pickup truck during a rollover crash in Kansas City following a high-speed police chase that crossed from Kansas into Missouri early Tuesday, according to police radio traffic.
The crash occurred about 3 a.m. on the ramp from Prospect Avenue to Interstate 70. The two injured people were in a white late-1990s or early 2000s Chevrolet extended cab pickup truck, according to police radio traffic captured by Broadcastify.com.
The Broadcastify audio picked up the chase as Kansas City, Kansas, police officers pursued the vehicle eastbound on State Avenue. The pickup was traveling at 100 mph as it passed 65th Street.
“There is a weapon inside the vehicle,” a dispatcher advised during the chase. “There is a handgun inside the vehicle. The vehicle was shooting at another vehicle.”
The pursuit wound its way from western Wyandotte County to just east of downtown Kansas City, reached speeds of 100 mph at time the driver was headed the wrong way.
At times, the vehicle was headed the wrong way in the westbound lanes of State Avenue.
“Speeds down to 70 miles an hour; he’s back in the correct lanes. We are passing 55th Street,” the officer said. “And correction, he just jumped back over. He’s now the wrong way again. But were about 80 mile an hour.”
The supervisor told the officer to keep him updated on traffic conditions but to continue the chase.
At Interstate 635, the chase headed south from State Avenue. The officer advised that the driver was in the correct lanes of travel.
“He’s swerving between all the lanes of travel right now,” the pursuing officer said. “We are taking 70 east. He almost lost it there, 70 eastbound, but we are up and on from 635 now.”
The driver sped up again, with speeds of 100 mph reported as the chase passed 18th Street. The driver then took Interstate 670 eastbound into Missouri and across the south side of the downtown loop and onto eastbound I-70.
After passing The Paseo, the driver exited the highway at Brooklyn Avenue and then headed back onto eastbound I-70 at Prospect Avenue with speeds reaching 60 mph.
“Rollover,” the pursuing officer advised.
An officer advised that they needed ambulances because two occupants of the truck had been ejected during the crash. The wreck occurred on the on ramp to eastbound I-70 from Prospect.
The extent of the injuries were not immediately available.
This story was originally published September 13, 2022 at 8:29 AM.
