High-speed chase ends in crash, arrest on Riverside Drive Monday

High-speed chase ends in crash, arrest on Riverside Drive Monday

A high-speed police pursuit ended in a crash Monday on Riverside Drive after a driver sideswiped a Chattanooga Police patrol car and struck a utility pole while fleeing a traffic stop, the Chattanooga Police Department (CPD) says.

Driver crashes into pole after hitting patrol car on Riverside Drive

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) — A dangerous scene played out on Riverside Drive in Chattanooga around 7:45 p.m. Monday night. A police officer saw a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed and tried to make a traffic stop. According to investigators, the driver sideswiped the patrol car, then drove straight across Riverside Drive and hit a pole. Four people were in that car, and they all took off running, Officers quickly found three of them, incl…