A suspect fleeing police struck another vehicle Monday morning in St. Paul, sending both drivers to Regions Hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
The incident began around 10:30 a.m. Monday when a Washington County Sheriff’s Office sergeant stopped the driver of a Nissan Armada at Century and Larpenteur avenues on the Oakdale-Maplewood border and the 27-year-old Minneapolis man provided what was believed to be an alias, according to a sheriff’s department news release.
Deputies determined the man had an extensive criminal history with active felony warrants for threats of violence and fleeing police. They tried to have the driver exit the vehicle but he refused before suddenly accelerating “while a deputy was standing in the open-door portion of the vehicle,” the release states.
Deputies pursued the driver for more than four miles before the suspect struck a Toyota RAV4 that was traveling on Johnson Parkway at the intersection with Seventh Street in St. Paul. A 49-year-old St. Paul woman driving the Toyota was injured and transported to Regions.
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