A pursuit of a pickup truck with 2 males that reportedly tried to avoid a KC-MO police sobriety checkpoint resulted in serious injuries to the passenger and very critical injuries to the driver.
The chase began shortly before 2:30 am in the East Bottoms area when an officer reported the suspect vehicle "made a U-turn a block away" from a police sobriety checkpoint. Officers managed to pierce 2 of the suspect vehicle's tires before the chase went south out of the East Bottoms toward Northeast KC-MO and Interstate-70.
At 2:35am- the pursuit is westbound on I-70 from Prospect. Two minutes later- the suspect vehicle crashes into a concrete divider in the northeast Downtown loop at Charlotte.
As a police officer watches and reports- the suspect driver gets out of the crashed pickup- runs to and jumps over the bridge spanning Charlotte.
The "approximately 23-year-old" man suffered very critical head injuries and a fractured leg in the jump. The driver and his "56-year-old" passenger were both taken to a nearby medical trauma center.
Police shut down I-70 and all access points at the scene of the incident.
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Darwin calls.
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