Two men were arrested and three hospitalized Thursday morning after an SUV fleeing a police car that wasn’t chasing it crashed into a second SUV, sending it into a third.
Two men in the first SUV, a black 2014 Chevrolet Captiva, were transported to Memorial University Medical Center after Savannah-Chatham police and county drug agents apprehended them during a foot chase, said Julian Miller, metro police spokesman. They were treated for injuries and then arrested by the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team.
Three men in the second SUV, a black 2013 Toyota Rav 4, were transported to Candler Hospital for treatment of serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The truck they were in overturned, taking out a utility pole and coming to rest against a third black SUV, an unoccupied Volvo XC90, Miller said.
CNT agents had requested metro police perform a traffic stop on the first SUV with two males in it as part of an investigation about 11:30 a.m., Miller said.
A marked patrol unit attempted a traffic stop on Abercorn near 37th Street on behalf of the agents. The Captiva sped away and the marked unit disengaged, Miller said.
A short time later, police were called to the wreck at East 41st and Habersham streets. The original SUV had sped south on Abercorn and was headed east on 41st Street when it ran a stop sign and broadsided the Toyota, Miller said.
No further information was immediately available.