KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Five people are injured, two critically, after a high speed chase that led to a crash on King Highway in Kalamazoo.
A trooper from the Michigan State Police Paw Paw Post spotted the driver of the gray Chevy Impala cross the right fog line and speed westbound on M-96 around 4:30 p.m. Monday.
The driver then moved over the centerline to pass another vehicle, nearly striking an eastbound truck head-on.
The trooper activated his lights and attempted to stop the driver but eventually had to call the pursuit off.
That’s when the suspect continued speeding, ran a stop light at the intersection of King Highway and the I-94 Business Loop almost hitting another vehicle, and eventually crashed into two separate vehicles traveling eastbound on King Highway about a quarter-mile west of the stop light.
Four people were in the suspect’s vehicle and two, an 18-year-old Kalamazoo man and a 16-year-old Kalamazoo girl, were critically injured. The other two suffered non-critical injuries.
In one of the vehicles that was struck, a 44-year-old Kalamazoo woman sustained non-critical injuries and the driver of the second hit vehicle, a 31-year-old man from Charlotte, was not injured.
The crash is under investigation and authorities believe alcohol or drugs may have been a factor.
