Law Enforcement Road Chase Ends in Pileup in Spring Valley

At least two people were injured Tuesday when a man fleeing from deputies crashed the car he was driving into several other vehicles on a thoroughfare near Dictionary Hill.

The pileup that halted the brief road chase occurred shortly before 9 a.m. on Sweetwater Road, between Ildica and Tyler streets in Spring Valley, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.

After deputies arrested the suspect, paramedics took him to a hospital for evaluation of complaints of pain along with another person involved in the crash, Lt. Ashley Lewis said.

The suspect, whose name was not immediately available, had fled when members of a narcotics task force tried to contact him in a parking lot at a shopping center near where the pursuit ended, according to OnSceneTV.

Lewis said she had no details about why deputies initially attempted to detain the suspect.

— City News Service