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Several passengers on a CTA bus were injured last night when a teenager trying to escape a police chase crashed the stolen car he was driving into the bus. The incident happened shortly before midnight last night. One officer saw the reported stolen car and began pursuit; other officers followed and a chase ensued. The driver blew through a stop sign at 79th and Perry and crashed into a No. 79 bus. Eight people on board the bus were injured but were all listed in good condition at Stroger Hospital as was the driver of the car who is now in police custody. A passenger who was in the car was in good condition but not charged with anything. [CBS 2, CBN]
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The people on the bus went up and down.
This is a perfect example of why high speed police chases are simply not worth it within the city. Can anyone justify speeding through streets full of people and running into a bus just to catch a non-violent offender?
When I lived in Baltimore in the early 90s I was driving to work one morning down Edmonson Ave. Edmonson was the size of Chicago's Ashland Ave., and I was driving through a lousy neighborhood, going about 35 MPH. I had the radio up pretty loud, I even remember I was listening to "Summer Babe" on Slanted and Enchanted. Right before I crossed through an intersection with the green light, I noticed all the cars around me slam on their brakes, coming to screeching stops. Before I could react, I saw a car fly through the intersection on the street perpindicular to me, against the red, going about 60 MPH. I missed t-boning it by about a second. "What the hell was that?" I thought, as I continued through and past the intersection. I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw about eight cop cars, in hot pursuit, also fly through the intersection. I somehow went right through the middle of a high-speed chase. If I'd left the house a second earlier or a second later that day my life would have ended or been significantly altered (I owned an '85 Honda Civic, no airbags, etc.). Luckily the other drivers around me were more attentive -- and were not blasting their stereos. I haven't cranked up the music in my car since then.