A motorist was seriously injured Wednesday night after a car driven by a Rochester man wanted on a felony warrant in Missouri crashed into another vehicle during a brief police pursuit.
Capt. Greg Bello of the Rochester Police Department said the incident injured two men and nearly struck several officers who were conducting a traffic stop. A patrol vehicle was also damaged.
The initial traffic stop on Sullivan Street
The incident began just before 8 p.m. on Sullivan Street near Joseph Avenue, where police had stopped a motorist — a 21-year-old man — driving a Jeep without a front license plate, Bello said. The vehicle had also drawn officers’ attention because of recent violence in the northeast section of the city.
The driver, who was alone in the vehicle, did not have a valid license. Officers placed him in the rear seat of a patrol car, where he was sitting with his legs outside the open door, Bello said.
Car strikes police car
A white sedan then turned from Joseph Avenue onto Sullivan Street at a high rate of speed and drove the wrong way down the narrow one-way street, police said…