Stolen car chase in south Edmonton ends with police box-in at Whitemud Drive: Witnesses – Edmonton

A person was taken away by police after a chase with a stolen automobile got here to a dramatic finish in south Edmonton late Sunday, witnesses instructed International Information.

The crash occurred on the main intersection of Calgary Path and Whitemud Drive, Edmonton police mentioned.

Alex Lundell and Mohamed Elhenawi had been in a truck that was hit throughout the incident and mentioned they first noticed the automobile, which police mentioned was stolen, driving down Calgary Trail, south of Whyte Avenue.

“He type of, like, zooming by us going, I’m guessing, like 140, 160ish (kilometres an hour),” Elhenawi estimated.

The younger males mentioned once they reached 51 Avenue, they noticed some police automobiles following the automobile. The lads continued driving south and reached a pink gentle at Whitemud Drive.

That’s the place they noticed the silver automobile had circled and was driving again north within the unsuitable route, headed proper towards them.

That’s when Lundell mentioned police intercepted it on the ramp to the Whitemud.

“He was about to simply ram into us. However fortunately a cop got here and simply slammed into him and simply sped out into us.”

The automobile, an Infiniti G35, ended up boxed in by a number of unmarked police vehicles on the street main right down to Whitemud Drive westbound.

“There was like 4 or 5 cops, they had been all simply cornering him,” Lundell mentioned. “He was attempting to drive away. They had been all hitting him — left, proper.”

Lundell mentioned their truck didn’t maintain a lot harm and nobody inside it was harm.

“It was positively a loopy expertise, however I’m grateful that no one obtained injured.”

Elhenawi and Lundell each mentioned the motive force of the stolen automobile was taken away, not carrying a shirt or footwear however strolling on his personal.

Elhenawi mentioned the officers they spoke with claimed the chase had been ongoing for an hour earlier than it got here to an finish in south Edmonton.

“They mentioned all of the cop vehicles had been filled with gasoline this morning and now they’re all empty,” Elhenawi mentioned.

Edmonton police haven’t launched any particulars on the crash aside from to substantiate the stolen Infiniti G35 was concerned.

The crash occurred on the similar intersection the place two folks had been killed and one other critically injured final month.