This story is republished with permission from The Institute for Public Service Reporting Memphis. Read the original story here.
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 striking a telephone pole.’’…