The driver hit the gas, racing his blue Chevy Malibu through the streets of Memphis’ Whitehaven community for a quarter-hour with three highway patrol cars in hot pursuit.
Seventeen minutes into the chase — initiated after the driver failed to dim his bright lights — things turned chaotic. A state trooper “began to attempt to box the blue malibu in and end the pursuit,” according to a second trooper’s affidavit filed in General Sessions criminal court. But the fleeing vehicle — with a mother and infant child on board — “swerved and struck” the trooper’s car, which “came to a final rest after striki ng a telephone pole.’’
The chase continued…