Police were searching for a man who ran away after a pursuit ended in a crash off a freeway embankment that injured his female passenger early Tuesday in Garden Grove.
The pursuit started after 1 a.m. at Garden Grove Boulevard and Valley View, police Lt. Bob Bogue said in a news release.
Garden Grove police were patrolling motels near Beach and Garden Grove boulevards when one of the officers saw a bronze Honda Accord driving out of a motel parking lot, turn off its lights and head west on Garden Grove Boulevard.
When the officer tried to pull the car over, the Honda sped up and ran several red lights.
Police chased the car at speeds over 80 mph before losing sight of it near Garden Grove and Valley View Street.
Police later spotted the car on its side down the side of a freeway embankment in ice plants near where the Garden Grove (22) Freeway merges with the San Diego (405) Freeway.
The driver had lost control around a curve.
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Homeless people from an encampment in bushes helped woman near the crashed car.
Officers saw the suspect scale a chain-link fence and run across a freeway, Bogue said. The woman was conscious but uncooperative with officers, he said. She was hospitalized in stable condition.
Officers from Garden Grove Police Department as well as Westminster, Seal Beach, and the CHP searched the area for the driver but he wasn't found. The vehicle was registered in the city of Buena Park but police were unable to contact the registered owner to see if the car is stolen.
The Garden Police Department is asking for the public's help we are looking for anyone that may have witnessed the crash of the suspect fleeing. Please call 714-741-5800 with any information.
