A 66-year-old woman suffered life-threatening injuries after a suspect fleeing police collided head-on with her vehicle in San Diego’s O’Farrell neighborhood, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The collision occurred around 4:12 p.m. Monday when Central Division officers initiated a pursuit of a Jeep Cherokee driven by a 20-year-old man traveling eastbound on Imperial Avenue, according to the San Diego Police Department.<\/p>\n
During the chase, the driver crossed into oncoming westbound lanes. Officers terminated the ground pursuit, and the department’s airborne unit began tracking the vehicle from above.<\/p>\n
Moments later, the Jeep collided head-on with an eastbound Toyota Camry in the 6400 block of Imperial Avenue, the department reported. The 20- year-old driver fled the crash scene on foot but was quickly taken into custody.<\/p>\n
A 66-year-old female passenger in the Toyota was transported to a local hospital with perforated organs and underwent surgery. Police said her injuries are considered life-threatening. The 61-year-old male driver of the Toyota suffered a left rib fracture, while the suspect reported head pain.<\/p>\n
Police confirmed alcohol or drug impairment was not a factor in the collision.<\/p>\n
Authorities urge anyone with information regarding the incident to contact the San Diego Police Department or San Diego County Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 66-year-old woman suffered life-threatening injuries after a suspect fleeing police collided head-on with her vehicle in San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-445650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445650","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=445650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}