{"id":140101,"date":"2026-01-19T14:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140101\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T14:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:32:14","slug":"westminster-police-vehicle-crashes-into-uninvolved-car-during-chase-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140101\/","title":{"rendered":"Westminster police vehicle crashes into uninvolved car during chase \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Westminster police pursuing a suspect crashed into an uninvolved car early Sunday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1 a.m. on Jan. 18,\u00a0 police attempted to stop the driver of a white Dodge Ram in the area of Beach and Westminster boulevards for an unspecified vehicle code violation when the driver fled, leading to the pursuit, Westminster police Watch Commander Andy Stowers said.<\/p>\n<p>During the chase, the patrol car crashed into an uninvolved car in the area of Beach Boulevard and Ball Road in Anaheim, news video from the scene showed. Both the officer and the civilian had minor injuries, according to Stowers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A car that was not part of a police pursuit was struck by a Westminster patrol car on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (Photo by OC Hawk)\" width=\"922\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OCR-L-WESTMINSTER-PURSUIT-0119.2.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"11364825\" \/>A car that was not part of a police pursuit was struck by a Westminster patrol car on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (Photo by  OC Hawk)<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash was not provided.<\/p>\n<p>With help from Anaheim police, the pursuit suspect was stopped, arrested and booked into Orange County Jail on suspicion of DUI and felony evading, Stowers said.<\/p>\n<p>City News Service contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westminster police pursuing a suspect crashed into an uninvolved car early Sunday morning, authorities said. Around 1 a.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,350,138,23,100,611,236,13364,136,6737],"class_list":["post-140101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-crash","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-police","tag-police-chase","tag-top-stories","tag-westminster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}