After a wild chase, Virginia state trooper injured in I-95 crash in Prince William Co.

A chaotic two‑county pursuit that stretched across Northern Virginia ended Friday afternoon with a driver in jail and a Virginia State Police trooper recovering from minor injuries.

Matthew Demlein, a spokesman for the Virginia State Police, told WTOP that the incident started at about 3 p.m. Friday, when Fairfax County Police spotted a 2011 Dodge Nitro tied to a possible domestic kidnapping case out of Prince William County.

Troopers moved in for a traffic stop on the northbound lanes of Interstate 95, but the driver — later identified as Woodbridge resident Carlos Gomez Lozano — refused to pull over, according to Demlein. This led police onto eastbound Interstate 495 before the chase was called off at the Maryland state line…

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