TAMARAC, FLA. (WSVN) – A chaotic crash in Tamarac that involved a Broward Sheriff’s Office vehicle sent three people to the hospital, and witnesses said it was the result of a pursuit gone wrong.
BSO units responded to the scene of the multi-vehicle wreck at the intersection of Northwest 31st Avenue and Prospect Road, just outside Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, just after midnight on Tuesday.
Cameras captured several mangled vehicles that have since been towed from the scene.
Witness Jared Fisher said he was working at a nearby 7-Eleven when he looked out the window and saw a BSO truck in pursuit of a car.
“We saw like six cops coming, and they were chasing after one car as well, and they were going through the intersection, and the car that was getting chased went through the intersection — it passed through easily — and the cop behind him collided with a car that was making a left-hand turn,” he said. “We were just, like, in shock. We heard a collision; it was big, it was loud.”
Fisher said the impact left at least one of the both vehicles overturned.
“You weren’t expecting anything like this to happen, but once it happened, it was very shocking; my blood pressure rose,” he said. “It was so loud, it had a big impact. We could hear it from inside the store.”
Surveillance video from inside a store shows multiple BSO vehicles racing through the intersection before they slow down and stop.
“When we stepped outside and heard the collision, we heard several cops came out and ran directly to the car and were screaming, ‘Are you OK? Are you all right?’” said Fisher. “That right there just raised the concern levels and made everything so intense.”
Police scanners captured those tense moments.
“We’ve got [a victim] bleeding from the eye and the head,” said a first responder. “We’ve got another vehicle rolled over on its side.”
Fisher said dozens of deputies responded and shut down the intersection.
“It was about 30 cops out. I haven’t seen anything like this before,” he said.
Paramedics with Tamarac Fire Rescue transported three patients to Broward Health Medical Center as trauma alerts, officials said.
A third vehicle, and SUV, crashed further down the road, but authorities have not confirmed whether or not it’s the vehicle they were pursuing.
The intersection remained closed to traffic for hours as they carried out their investigation.
The circumstances surrounding this pursuit remain unknown. 7News has reached out to BSO for more information about the victims’ conditions and whether the deputy involved was one of them.
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