TAMPA, Fla. — Four people face criminal charges after leading authorities on a highway pursuit that ended in a crash, followed shortly by a secondary collision that sent a deputy to the hospital, officials said.
Deputies tried to pull over a vehicle for failing to stay in its lane along Gibsonton Drive near Interstate 75 around 10:05 p.m. on Oct. 19, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. The driver refused to stop and sped away.
Undercover units tracked the vehicle across several roads before the sheriff’s aviation unit stepped in to monitor it from above. Flight crews watched the car swerve outside a guardrail, drive into an active construction zone, and crash into an embankment near I-75 and North U.S. Highway 301…