BATON ROUGE — A driver led police on a pursuit before running a red light and hitting another vehicle carrying five people, according to police.
On July 29, just after midnight on South Choctaw Drive near North Foster Drive, an officer clocked a vehicle traveling around 60 miles per hour in a 45 miles per hour zone and tried to pull the driver over, but the driver refused to stop, the Baton Rouge Police Department said.
The pursuit ended in the 2500 block of South Choctaw Drive at the intersection of North Sherwood Forest Boulevard. Police say the driver ran a red light and struck another vehicle that had two adults and three teenagers inside…