{"id":298760,"date":"2026-10-03T01:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T01:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298760\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T01:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T01:35:11","slug":"police-pursuit-in-westfield-ends-with-truck-driving-into-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298760\/","title":{"rendered":"Police pursuit in Westfield ends with truck driving into Lake Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputies say the truck drove through a barrier at Barcelona Harbor before landing in the water.<\/p>\n<p>WESTFIELD, N.Y. \u2014 A police pursuit in Westfield ended with a truck driving into Lake Erie, according to the Chautauqua County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/news\/crime\/jamestown-mother-charged-child-leads-police-in-stolen-car-chase\/71-287e0d39-8e3c-4f78-87a3-8ae8016c4107\" class=\"cms__embed-related-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamestown mother charged after child leads police in stolen car chase<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Undersheriff Jim Rensel tells 2 On Your Side, officers initiated a &#8220;slow speed pursuit&#8221; Friday morning after a car that was sitting in the middle of the road took off, without deputies making contact with the driver.<\/p>\n<p>The chase ended when the truck allegedly drove through a barrier at Barcelona Harbor before landing in Lake Erie.<\/p>\n<p>Undersheriff Rensel says a town excavator pulled the truck out of the water after several hours, and the woman driving the truck was brought to the hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>She is expected to be okay. Her identity has not been released at this hour.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. We will continue to provide updates when more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies say the truck drove through a barrier at Barcelona Harbor before landing in the water. WESTFIELD, N.Y.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-298760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}