{"id":443831,"date":"2026-08-26T07:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443831\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:20:12","slug":"suspect-t-bones-driver-in-violent-crash-at-the-end-of-police-chase-in-highland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443831\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect T-bones driver in violent crash at the end of police chase in Highland Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, August 26, 2026 5:37AM<\/p>\n<p>A police chase ended with a major crash into an innocent driver in Highland Park on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HIGHLAND PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A police chase ended with a major crash into an innocent driver in Highland Park on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Huntington Park police were in pursuit of a silver Ford Focus winding its way through several northeast Los Angeles neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">That&#8217;s when the suspect entered into cross traffic, t-boning an uninvolved driver at the intersection of Avenue 53 and Figueroa Street. The whole thing was captured on AIR7 video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The officers quickly pulled the driver out of the Focus and took him into custody. The airbag was deployed in the major crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">AIR7 video shows the driver sitting on the curb in handcuffs after the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">First responders were seen checking on the female driver behind the wheel of the vehicle that was t-boned. She was clearly shaken by the violent collision, but did not appear to be seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Police did not immediately provide further details on what the driver was initially being pursued for.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, August 26, 2026 5:37AM A police chase ended with a major crash into an innocent driver in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[175878,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-443831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-175878","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443831","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=443831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}