A police pursuit of a vehicle with a 13-year-old boy behind the wheel ended with one person dead and nearly a dozen injured in a fiery crash in California, police say.
A police pursuit of a vehicle with a 13-year-old boy behind the wheel ended with one person dead and nearly a dozen injured in a fiery crash in California, police said Saturday.
The happened around 4:25 p.m. in Woodland, California, a city 20 miles northwest of Sacramento, police said. An officer noticed a vehicle, later determined to be stolen, being driven"erratically," tried to stop it, and ended up in a short vehicle pursuit, the Woodland Police Department said in a statement.
The pursuit came to a deadly conclusion at an intersection, the department said."The car collided with two other vehicles causing two cars to catch fire," it said. and three juveniles, including the 13-year-old, were among approximately 10 people hospitalized, Woodland police Sgt. Victoria Danzl told NBC affiliate KCRA of Sacramento.It wasn't clear what preceded the chase. The conditions of the 10 injured weren't immediately available.The California Highway Patrol, which police say is leading the investigation, didn't immediately respond to a request for information.
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