Six People Hurt When BSO Chase Comes To Crashing End
FT. LAUDERDALE (CBS4) - Six people were hospitalized at Broward General Medical Center after a high speed chase involving Broward Sheriff's deputies came to a crashing end in Ft. Lauderdale.
The sheriff's office said it began around 6 p.m. when deputies tried to pull over the driver of a Dodge Charger in the 3000 block of Northwest Third Street in Pompano Beach. Instead of complying, the driver of the Charger reportedly sped up and tried to hit two deputies. With the deputies in pursuit, the driver of the Charger made it to the Florida Turnpike and then got off on Sunrise Boulevard.
In the 1800 block of NW 6th Street it all came to a crashing end.
Wanda Jackson was standing nearby and said she saw the whole scene.
"It sounded like a terrible bang. It was terrible," Jackson.
She said the black Charger with three men inside raced down a residential street, right next to a Sistrunk area park, ran a stop sign and slammed into a Hyundai with two adults and three children inside.
Jackson said the children in the Hyundai all appeared to be under five years old.
"The little boy was turned upside down, and I took him out and I was holding him and I grabbed the other two out of the seatbelts to get them out of the car," she said.
All five people in the Hyundai were taken to the hospital with what were described as non-life threatening injuries. A man who was in the Charger was also taken to the hospital where he was treated for a broken leg.
BSO has indentified the three men in the car as 20-year old Ernest Ceasar, 23-year old Darius Monroe and 19-year old Gregory Holloway.
Many witnesses said the deputies should have given up the chase when they saw the neighborhood they were in.
"All these kids were out here playing, they jeopardized kid's lives," said Jackson.
Another witness Melvin Mills agrees.
"For me they should've called this off 'cause they had the helicopter in the sky, this could have been prevented."
BSO said they had to chase the car because the men tried to commit murder against two deputies. The sheriff's office added that the deputies are trained to maneuver in a situation like this.
