A police chase that sent a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus barreling into a house in Homewood on Tuesday started due to a summary offense by the driver officers were pursuing.
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The chase started in Monroeville and went through several communities. It ended with the PRT bus slamming into a man’s house and multiple people getting hurt.
“He used poor judgment. I think to pursue that distance was poor judgment,” District Attorney Stephen Zappala told Channel 11.
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“This was not the result that we wanted. The officer got hurt, two other people got hurt, there was an accident with the bus. We’ll do better than that in the future. But under these circumstances, I don’t find fault in it,” he said.
Back in 2017, the DA set a model policy — saying that police should only chase suspects with violent felonies.
In Tuesday’s chase, that driver was suspected of having tinted windows, which is a minor traffic offense.